Charleston also works with other Urban initiatives as the organization seeks to innovate its engagement protocols and approaches.Lerman earned his AB at Brandeis University and his PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.As dean, Feder built Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute into one of the nation’s leading schools. From 2010 to 2013, he led the Urban … He was one of the first scholars to examine the patterns and economic determinants of unwed fatherhood, and to propose a youth apprenticeship strategy in the United States. Before joining Urban, Kim was a senior researcher for the State of New York, providing strategic planning and research oversight for numerous task forces on criminal justice issues. In 2006 and 2008, she was the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia’s 10th congressional district.Charleston has extensive experience in state and local government. Lerman has testified before congressional committees on youth apprenticeship, child support policies, and the information technology labor market.KiDeuk Kim is a senior fellow in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where he leads multidisciplinary research teams to examine issues related to criminal justice interventions and policies.
From 1990 to 2006, Cadwell was director of the IRIS Center in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland. His primary research focuses on employment, examining racial and gender differences in career pathways, barriers in access to work, and gaps in wages and earnings. She is also the evaluation director for the Transition from Jail to Community initiative on 14 sites, co-PI for the National Institute of Correction’s Norval Morris workforce transformation project, and a member of Urban’s Institutional Review Board.Judy Feder, an Urban Institute fellow, is a professor of public policy and, from 1999 to 2008, was dean of what is now the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. IRIS conducted research on economic development and reform in developing countries, working with reform leaders in more than 70 countries to understand and improve governance and economic policies.Aron holds a BS in mathematics from McGill University and an MA in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.Donnie Charleston is director of state and local fiscal policy engagement at the Urban Institute. A leading expert on apprenticeship, he recently established the American Institute for Innovative Apprenticeship. His current research focuses on promoting data-driven decisionmaking in the criminal justice system and translating empirical research into policy recommendations.
in Mathematics from the University of Utah, and a B.A. On the research front, he was the assistant director for a university research institute and an economic policy manager at the North Carolina State University Institute for Emerging Issues. Prior to joining the Treasury, she served as the senior economist for environmental affairs at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the development of the Kyoto Protocol. This program helps state and local policymakers improve their budget processes to meet the challenges of today’s economy. Donald Marron is an Institute fellow and director of economic policy initiatives at the Urban Institute. He is a seasoned professional with extensive policy and research expertise in government and service systems reform initiatives. Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research. His work focuses on translating research for decisionmakers and translating the needs and priorities of state policymakers for Urban’s researchers, especially for Urban’s State and Local Finance Initiative. Currently, she is evaluating the performance and impact of jail reentry programs in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and is principal investigator (PI) for the evaluation of OJJDP’s FY2010 Second Chance Act Juvenile Offender Reentry Demonstration Projects. Her many publications include books, book chapters, journal articles, and opinion pieces on topics ranging from social determinants of health to urban education reform. Before joining Urban, Brown was an analyst at Abt Associates, where he contributed to the Family Options Study of stable and affordable housing options for homeless families, including coauthoring the project’s short-term impacts report.
Definition: Urban sociology is a branch of sociology that seeks to study life in cities and their impact on society’s development (“Concepts of Urban” n.d.). He has extensive research experience and national expertise in actuarial decisionmaking in criminal justice, criminal case processing, and policy evaluations. A nationally recognized leader in health policy, she has made her mark on the nation’s health insurance system through both scholarship and public service.Cadwell is a graduate of Yale College and the National Law Center at the George Washington University.