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I'm a criminologist with a background in public mental health, I currently work for JLUSA training formerly incarcerated and other people directly impacted by the US justice system, on leadership, advocacy, and how to lead change and reform in our justice system.
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Pantelis Koutroumpis is a Lead Researcher in the Oxford Martin Programme of Technological and Economic Change at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Pantelis' main research interests are industrial economics and public policy.
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PhD student (LSE Department of Government) studying the use of information in policy design, specifically within the realm of conflict.
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I am a development geographer, with extensive fieldwork and research experience in the Andes, particularly Ecuador and Peru. My work focuses on postcolonial intersectional hierarchies and their exclusionary interfaces with policymaking and development outcomes.
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With experience in policing and transportation, I specialize in public sector reform and improvement, delivering operational improvement to business processes, standards, performance and culture.
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Early career researcher in comparative politics (PhD Government 2023, London School of Economics and Political Science). Prior professional experience as a researcher on strategies and innovation in outcomes-focused social policy procurement.
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Civil rights counsel - formerly with the House Committee on Education and Labor. Working to ensure equity considering Future of Work and health disparities, especially post-pandemic and recovery.
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Criminologist, educator, and scholar focused on theory, race, social control, and criminal justice institutions. Former correctional officer. Currently studying colorism and accountability for criminal justice practitioners.
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Derek Hyra is a professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy within the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on processes of neighborhood change, with an emphasis on housing, urban politics, and race. Dr. Hyra is the co-editor of Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC (Routledge 2016), and author of The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville (University of Chicago Press 2008) and Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City (University of Chicago Press 2017). He is working on his fourth manuscript, Understanding Unrest: Race, Policy, and Neighborhood Inequality (University of California Press).
Dr. Hyra’s research has been showcased in both academic journals, such as Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and Urban Studies, and popular media outlets, including the British Broadcasting Corporation, Chicago Public Radio, C-SPAN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He has also received several important grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Dr. Hyra strongly believes in public service. He has served as board chair of the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority, as an Alexandria Planning Commissioner, and as an Obama appointee on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Council on Underserved Communities. He was also a U.S. Congressional candidate in Northern Virginia in 2014. He currently serves as the chair of the American Sociological Association’s Community and Urban Sociology Section, as an editorial advisory board member of Housing Policy Debate, as a City of Falls Church (Virginia) Planning Commissioner, and as an Advocacy Advisory Council member of the United Planning Organization in Washington, DC. He received his B.A. from Colgate University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.