Meet the team

Our work starts with stakeholder questions and problems. Our interdisciplinary team then helps identify, implement, and evaluate solutions—building scalable models for change. Meet the key players in that process.

Core Team

Making progress possible

Our small but dynamic, interdisciplinary team supports groundbreaking projects that help stakeholders navigate the complicated criminal justice system. This core team is supported by an indispensable network of researchers, graduate students, the UNC School of Government, court system stakeholders, and funders.

Maggie Bailey

Operations Director

Hannah Turner

Research Director

Jamie Vaske

Senior Research Associate

Graduate Students

Instrumental in our work

Part of our strength comes from working with graduate students—the best and the brightest—from Ph.D. and master’s programs at UNC and across the country. This includes those getting advanced degrees in public health, criminology, information and library science, city and regional planning, public administration, forensic psychology, and related fields.

Rachel Campbell-Baier 

Moriah Sharpe

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Stakeholders

Driving our projects

Our stakeholders represent all corners of North Carolina and all stakeholders in the criminal justice system—including judges, prosecutors, public defenders, clerks of court, magistrates, sheriffs, chiefs of police, county commissioners, business leaders, and legislators, among others. 

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Affiliated Researchers

Providing added expertise

Affiliated researchers from UNC and other universities contribute to our data-based strength. We also partner with researchers from world-class nonprofit organizations like Policy Research Associates, The Pew Research Center, and RTI International. 

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Our Funders

Supporting all we do

Our work is funded through grants and gifts from sponsors and contracts with stakeholders. We’re grateful for our sponsors:

Anonymous Trust

Arnold Ventures

Charles Koch Foundation 

Richard J. Reynolds, III and Marie M. Reynolds Foundation 

The Pew Charitable Trusts

William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation