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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 81-90

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From page 81...
... Previously, he held senior positions at Abt SRBI, and Louis Harris and Associates and was on the graduate teaching faculty of the University of Maryland and the research faculty of Columbia University's School of Public Health. His work focuses on the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of large-scale health surveys.
From page 82...
... is a senior statistical fellow at Westat and a research professor at the Joint Program for Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. His work is in designing social surveys and evaluating the effects of social policy covering a range of criminological and methodological topics, including the correlates of victimization risk, the measurement of personal victimization, survey nonresponse and nonresponse bias, and the use of incentives on surveys and panel conditioning.
From page 83...
... is a clinical associate professor of sociology at New York University, where she is also an affiliate of the Population Center and director of the MA Program in Applied Quantitative Research. Her research examines the interactions between criminal justice policy and practice, public health, and socioeconomic disadvantage and their joint effects on urban neighborhoods, families, and individuals.
From page 84...
... He co-organized the 2013 White House Conference on parental incarceration in the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation. He is a recipient of the Stockholm Prize in criminology, the Harry Kalven Prize from the Law & Society Association, and the Cesare Beccaria Gold Medal from the German Society of Criminology.
From page 85...
... She cochaired the 2012 NCMFR Measuring Incarceration in Household Surveys Invitational Forum, which brought together leading scholars, federal data providers, and policy makers to discuss the rise in mass incarceration in the United States, its effects on
From page 86...
... He serves on many national boards, including Governor Cuomo's Reentry and Reintegration Council, the advisory board of the Vera Institute's Public Health and Mass Incarceration Initiative, the National Network for Safe Communities, the Executive Session on Community Corrections at Harvard University, and the Global Advisory Council of Cornerstone Capital Group. He was named on the 2015 Root 100 list of most influential African Americans.
From page 87...
... His current research includes a study of neighborhood social capital and codes of violence, a study of life course trajectories of substance use and crime, a study of rational choice and deterrence (using panel data from the Denver Youth Survey) , and a study of collective action and political protest in Seattle and Leizpig, Germany.
From page 88...
... is professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and attending physician at the Miriam Hospital, where he is also the cofounder and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at the hospital's Immunology Center. His work focuses on infectious diseases and addiction, and he has advocated for public health policy changes to improve the health of people with addiction, including increasing drug treatment for the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated populations.
From page 89...
... Dr. Schober's recent and ongoing studies include work on conversational language use and perspective-taking, how differently people can conceive of what they are discussing despite apparent understanding, how partners with differing abilities take each other into account, conceptual misalignment in survey interview and testing interactions, how IQ testers can influence responses and scores, how survey interviewing techniques affect response accuracy, how interacting with interviewing systems that are more and less human-like affects survey respondents' willingness to disclose personal information, comprehension of natural speech (including dis­ uencies and stutters)
From page 90...
... CHRISTOPHER WILDEMAN (Member, Steering Committee) is an associate professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, where he is also a faculty fellow at the B ­ ronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research, the Center for the Study of Inequality, Court-Kay-Bauer Residence Hall, and the Cornell Population Center.


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