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is Arthur I. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

is a Brooklyn-based journalist who has covered politics, policy, real estate, transportation and art. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, the New York Post, Business Insider, Hyperallergic and Streetsblog.

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is an applied public safety researcher. He holds an MPhil and doctorate in sociology from Oxford University and has extensive experience working on public safety in government and nonprofits, designing research products for policymakers.

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is author of “Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America."

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is a Ph.D. student in NYU’s linguistics department.

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is a senior housing policy analyst at the Niskanen Center and a member of the Rent Guidelines Board.

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is an assistant professor of computational social science at NYU Steinhardt. He also co-directs the Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School and is the former director of analytics at the New York Police Department.

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is a criminologist who uses data and statistical methods to study gun violence, homicides, and drugs. He holds a PhD in Criminology from UPenn and currently is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Boston College.

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is professor and chair in the Department of Sociology & Criminology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami. He is also the former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (appointed by President Biden in June 2022).

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is the Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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is the founder and managing principal at MSquared, an investment and development firm. She served as deputy mayor for housing and economic development under Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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is the executive director of Community to Community, a new research initiative at Northeastern University that uses data and analysis to design, implement and evaluate urban public policies.

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is a pre-doctoral research associate at Princeton University.

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is a fellow in the transportation and land use program of the NYU Marron Institute.

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is executive editor of THE CITY and a former member of the New York Daily News editorial board. She is the author of works on corporate influence and real estate.

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is the managing director of Rebuild by Design. She worked for Mayor Michael Bloomberg as chief of staff to the deputy mayor for legislative affairs and as a senior policy advisor.

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is vice president for research at the Citizens Budget Commission.

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is the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. His most recent book is "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America."

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is president of the Citizens Budget Commission.

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is the John G. Searle Professor of Sociology, the director of the Institute for Policy Research and the faculty director of the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science at Northwestern University.

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is a professor at NYU School of Law and co-host of the "Prosecuting Donald Trump" podcast. He is a former general counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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is professor of public policy at New York University and director of the Marron Institute of Urban Management, where she also leads the Litmus Program.

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is a freelance journalist who writes about the built environment. She is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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is president and CEO of the Social Science Research Council and a professor of politics at New York University. She directs the Public Safety Lab and is co-director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel.

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is executive director of Open New York, New York’s leading grassroots prohousing nonprofit advocacy organization.

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is a professor of History at Oberlin College and the author of "Freedomland: Co-op City and the Story of New York."

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is the Jerry Lee Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the university's Crime and Justice Policy Lab.

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is a senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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is a senior research associate at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Urban Tech Hub, and the author of "Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia" and "Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car."

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is a senior research methodologist in the Methodology and Quantitative Social Sciences Department at NORC at the University of Chicago.

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is an associate professor of finance at NYU Stern School of Business.

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is the executive director of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, the city’s main pretrial services and research agency. He is co-author, with Vital City co-editor Greg Berman, of the book "Gradual."

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is a second-year graduate student at NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service studying urban planning.

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is a partner at Faegre Drinker and previously served as president of the Empire State Development Corporation, New York’s economic and real estate development arm.

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is an urban planner. He has served on the board of Transportation Alternatives and as a public member of Brooklyn Community Board Six, and is a founding organizer of Mechanical Gardens Bike Co-Op.

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(retired) was director of psychiatry at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers. He served as past president of the New York State Psychiatric Association and past chair of the State Mental Health Services Council.

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is the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and founding director of the Policing Project at NYU School of Law, a nonprofit research center promoting public safety through transparency and democratic accountability.

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is the community-based research coordinator at the Center for Court Innovation.

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is a political strategist, lecturer and former executive director of the New York State Democratic Party.

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is Chief Philanthropy Officer at Trinity Church Wall Street.

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is the co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He also serves as the vice president of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy.

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is the executive director of The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative.

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is a Master’s of Public Administration student at NYU and a research assistant at the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.

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is the editorial assistant at Slow Boring.

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is the executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Crime and Justice Policy Lab, and directed UPenn’s efforts to provide technical assistance to Baltimore to implement its Group Violence Reduction Strategy.

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is an AI researcher.

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is the former director of policy planning for the city’s Department of Sanitation and author of "Fat of the Land: Garbage of New York — The Last 200 Years."

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is a freelance journalist and Bloomberg CityLab contributor currently and author of the recently published book, "The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution."

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is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the co-editor of HistPhil. In 2025, he will be a visiting scholar at Independent Sector.

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is the executive director of Riders Alliance, New York City’s grassroots organization of public transit riders. Before joining Riders Alliance, she served as the vice president of policy for the New York Immigration Coalition.

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is a humorist, New Yorker cartoonist and author of books including "The Illustrated History of the Snowman," "Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores" and "Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums."

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is a DJ, author and filmmaker.

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is a partner at the Democratic polling and data analytics firm Honan Strategy Group and co-president of the New York Metro Chapter of the American Association of Political Consultants.

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is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist and writer. His new book, "Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot at Saving Democracy," was published on September 17.

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is an assistant professor of medicine at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and research scientist at Brown University Health. He was chief of police of Burlington, Vermont, and served with the NYPD from 1997 to 2015.

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is a professor of economics at Columbia University.

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is Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States at the University of California, Berkeley, author of “The Myth of Continuity in American Gun Culture,” and the 2025–2026 Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

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is senior advisor on severe mental illness for Mayor Eric Adams.

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is the special narcotics prosecutor of New York City, a role she has held since 1998.

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is a professor of medicine in the Division of Health Equity & Society in the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. She is the founding director of Amend at UCSF.

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is a professor of sociology and director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University.

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is the executive director of Work for America, a national nonprofit that helps state and local governments recruit and retain talent.

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is a photographer who has spent more than 50 years documenting poor communities in New York City. He has more than 16,000 images in the Library of Congress.

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is president and CEO of the Public Welfare Foundation, an endowment fund for criminal justice reform. She is a former White House fellow and past director of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice.

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is the founder of AKA Urban, an advisory firm that works on complex public sector building projects. She also runs the Pilot Pitchfest, a program to match city agencies to local researchers and technical assistance from civic society.

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is a senior advisor at HR&A Advisors, former chair of the New York City Planning Commission and former president of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association.

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is president and CEO of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing. She has over a decade of experience in housing policy and previously represented the East Village as a City Council member for District 2.

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is teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab.

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is a writer and communications consultant for nonprofits.

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is a long-time civic leader with experience in city government and as chief executive of a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Citizens Budget Commission, The September 11th Fund and Learning Leaders.

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is chair of the board of the International Center of Photography and chair of the Sanitation Foundation Board, which recently launched the "Don't Do NYC Dirty" campaign.

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is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University.

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is an associate professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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is associate director for gun violence prevention at the Center for American Progress. He previously worked for the University of Chicago Urban Labs researching cognitive behavioral therapy in violence prevention.

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is professor emeritus at NYU’s Wagner School and research director emeritus at the Citizens Budget Commission.

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is a street outreach worker on Chicago’s West Side, where he supports street-involved youth in turning their lives around. A justice-impacted former gang member, he draws on his own lived experience to help young people choose a different path.

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is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

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is an architect of New York City's congestion pricing program and a former head of Transportation Alternatives. He was an energy analyst and utility expert for New York City and states from New York to California.

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is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and director of the Graduate Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research. She was a senior economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

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is the CEO of Tusk Strategies. Before Tusk, Chris worked for Mike Bloomberg for twelve years in leading roles in his administrations and campaigns.

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is a former U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot and combat-wounded veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He is a gun violence prevention advocate.

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is author of "To Be Mayor of New York: Ethnic Politics in the City," "The Power of the Mayor: David Dinkins 1990-1993" and "Bloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition."

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is the director of strategy at Design for Progress. His background is in politics, community organizing and spatial design.

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is a professor at Georgetown Law and faculty co-director of the Center for Innovations for Community Safety. She was a deputy chief in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division from 2010-2017.

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is a historian and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. She is the author of "Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State."

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is the founding partner of WXY, the New York City-based architecture, urban design and planning firm.

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is founding editor of InsideSchools.org and a journalist and parent advocate who has helped New York City parents navigate school choice.

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is an architect and the founder of the Center for Zero Waste Design.

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is the Bronx's district attorney.

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is executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Center. He sued Westchester County for failing to affirmatively further fair housing and was lead counsel in a fair housing case challenging NYC's housing lottery practices.

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is chief program officer for Amend at UCSF, an academic center that develops, deploys and evaluates novel interventions aimed at transforming U.S. prisons into centers for health, healing and rehabilitation.

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is a policy advisor at Brownsville Think Tank Matters.

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is former assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

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is director of justice reform at the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform and senior advisor to the Independent Rikers Commission. She coordinated NYC's plan to close Rikers from 2014-2022.

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is the director of New York legal policy at the Center for Justice Innovation.

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is a professor of political science at the City College of New York-CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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is the director of the New York City Department of City Planning.

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is a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the current Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

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is an associate professor at Rutgers University and director of research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center. His work has been published in leading criminology, public health and medical journals.

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is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes about questions related to civil society, philanthropy and governance.

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is the former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education.

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is a professor of education leadership, law and policy at Brooklyn College and The CUNY Graduate Center. He was general counsel to the New York City Board of Education prior to mayoral control.

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is the co-chair of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a New York City community organizing group, and senior pastor of St. Paul Community Baptist Church.

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is director of Urban Placemaking and Management. He was Mayor Bloomberg’s commissioner of the Department of Design and Construction and founder of the Center for Active Design.

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is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author. He is also a professor of practice teaching journalism, law and public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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is presidential professor emeritus at the University of North Florida. Since 2018, he has served as an expert consultant in the national prescription opioid litigation.

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is a city planner. He was a deputy commissioner of transportation in the Koch administration and, later, planning commissioner for Metropolitan Toronto. He was a founder of Transportation Alternatives.

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is a professor of health law, policy and management at Boston University’s School of Public Health, where he serves as assistant dean for public health practice.

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is the co-founder and CEO of Trust Neighborhoods.

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is a former Biden White House aide after 30 years working with state and local governments. He was chief of staff to Mark Green and is co-author of works on New York urban politics.

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is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School.

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is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. He has written widely about the police role and knowledge in police reform.

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is associate principal and director of urban design at WXY studio. He is former director of designing cities at NACTO and co-author of urban street design guides.

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is the former executive vice president for external affairs at the Brooklyn Public Library.

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is a commissioner with the New York City Public Design Commission. She serves as executive director of Van Alen Institute, an independent nonprofit working to create equitable cities through inclusive design.

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is a doctoral student in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland.

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is director of the Siena College Research Institute.

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is executive director of the Clark and Scriven Foundations and teaches philanthropy at Columbia Business School and the University of Pennsylvania.

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is a former federal prosecutor. Until June 2023, he was co-chief of the Violent & Organized Crime Unit in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

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is a practicing architect, an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University, and an associate research scholar at the school’s Housing Lab. He is a senior research fellow at the NYIT Center for Offsite Construction.

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is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is the author of "Triumph of the City."

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is an associate professor of Journalism at Lehman College, CUNY. She’s at work on a book about the people who fought for the Bronx in the 1970s and 80s.

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is editorial and policy director of the Center for an Urban Future, which is a think tank focused on creating a stronger and more inclusive economy in New York, and expanding economic opportunity for all New Yorkers.

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is a researcher at the Marron Institute of Urban Management, NYU.

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is a partner at Honan Strategy Group.

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is the founder of Vital City. She has previously served as a federal prosecutor and as the criminal justice adviser to a New York Governor and New York City mayor.

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is a child and family policy expert and senior fellow at the think tank Capita. He is author of the new book "Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care For All."

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is an associate professor and critical pedagogy librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is president-elect of the American Library Association.

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is the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Cities Program in New York and author of the "State of the Urban Forest in NYC." She helps lead Forest for All NYC.

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is a senior attorney and New York City environment director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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is a professor at NYU Marron and the director of the Transportation and Land Use program.

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was elected Brooklyn district attorney in 2017.

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is a professor of criminology and criminal justice and director of crime analysis initiatives at Northeastern University

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is the director of The Immigration Lab at American University.

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is the political anchor of Spectrum News NY1, where he hosts Inside City Hall, a nightly prime-time show that focuses on New York politics. He is a Vital City contributing writer.

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is the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he also serves as Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. He is the author of “Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.”

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is a longtime journalist who lives in the Bronx. She was the community editor of StreetsblogNYC from 2019 to 2022.

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is an investigative and explanatory reporter focusing on immigration in the U.S.

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is an independent infrastructure consultant. He served as interim chief financial officer and executive director of the Gateway Development Corporation.

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is a New York City-based architect with more than 40 years of experience in the justice industry. He is a leader in the courts and corrections field across North America.

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is a writer and academic. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and his cat.

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is part of the Recoding America Fund. He recently served as assistant secretary for technology under Governor Kathy Hochul.

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is a teacher at Baruch College.

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is CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund and host of the Capital for Good podcast at Columbia Business School. She is an author on social entrepreneurship and innovative finance.

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is an assistant professor of sociology and a member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.

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is the editor of Streetsblog NYC, which focuses on transit, street safety and public space.

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is executive director of Citizens Union.

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is a journalist currently covering criminal justice for the NY Daily News. He co-authored "Rikers: An Oral History" with Reuven Blau.

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is the author of "The Nonprofit Crisis: Leadership Through the Culture Wars" (Oxford) and the co-editor of Vital City.

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is the senior firearms analyst at Everytown for Gun Safety, where he uses his experience in the gun industry to support policy, education and public safety initiatives.

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is a writer, researcher and technologist. She was most recently a senior advisor for public interest technology at New America.

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is the Helen Ross Professor at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice.

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is a contributing writer for Vital City, a senior editor at the newsroom The City, a columnist at the New York Daily News and the executive producer and co-host of the FAQ NYC podcast.

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is the author of "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World."

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is a counsel in the Justice Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

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is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the new book "The Projects: A New History of Public Housing."

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is the executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council.

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is an attorney and economist, and author of the book "Understandable Economics."

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is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and faculty director at the NYU Furman Center. She specializes in housing policy and residential segregation.

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is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies, emeritus, at Stanford University. His book won the Pulitzer Prize in history for its analysis of the Constitution.

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is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Columbia University Justice Lab studying inequality and local justice systems.

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is an associate principal at WXY Studio.

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is associate professor of sociology and public service at New York University, where he teaches and conducts research on racial inequality and segregation.

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is a lawyer, cartographer, historian and the author of "The Lost Subways of North America." Originally born in San Francisco, he now lives in Brooklyn.

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is the managing director, impact advisory and public sector practice, at Social Finance, a national nonprofit and registered investment advisor.

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is the chief investment officer of Aligned Climate Capital and chairman of the board of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

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is an investigative reporter for The New York Times focusing on criminal justice issues, law enforcement and incarceration in New York.

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is Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor Emerita of Law at Columbia Law School.

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is a film critic and historian, and the author of six books. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Bloomberg, Vulture, Rolling Stone, The Playlist, RogerEbert.com and more.

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is an economics professor at Rutgers University-Newark.

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is a senior research associate at the Center for Court Innovation.

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is chief medical officer and executive vice president of Siga Technologies. A physician and epidemiologist, he led CDC programs in disease control, including New York City’s COVID-19 response.

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is a crime analyst based in New Orleans and co-founder of AH Datalytics. He is the author of a Substack newsletter covering crime data and analysis.

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is the director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, where he directs the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Government Performance Lab.

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became the dean of the Columbia Journalism School in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015 and is the author of "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress" and other books.

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is executive vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures. She is an economist who specializes in the economics of crime and criminal justice policy.

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is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center and Federation of American Scientists. She served as deputy chief technology officer and founded the nonprofit Code for America.

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is a professor of history at Wesleyan University and the founding director of Wesleyan’s Center for the Study of Guns and Society.

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is the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Pritzker Director of the Crime Lab. He co-directs the Education Lab and NBER’s working group on economics of crime.

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is director of the Local Accountability Reporting Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. His prior gigs include founding editor-in-chief of THE CITY and city editor of the Daily News.

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is director of violence reduction at the University of Pennsylvania Crime and Justice Policy Lab and special adviser on Baltimore’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy.

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is president emeritus of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and senior fellow at the CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance.

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is a pop music historian at Alan Lomax's Association for Cultural Equity and owner of Walk on the Wild Side Tours NYC, a music history walking tour company.

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is an AI/Tech Policy Counsel at the Policing Project's Tech Team.

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is an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at Suffolk University.

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is the strategic policy advisor at Cannon Heyman & Weiss LLP and principal of Silver Bullet Consulting. She is the former chief housing officer of New York City and was previously the executive director of the Citizens Housing & Planning Council.

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is the executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Prevent Gun Violence in New York City.

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is a reporter covering social and criminal justice issues in New York City and has spent the past year covering Rikers Island for WNYC. Previously, she worked for BK Reader and NBC New York.

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is the managing editor of Vital City. He was op-ed editor and editorial page editor of the New York Daily News from 2006 to 2022. He previously worked in political speechwriting and policy in New York and Washington.

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is a lifelong New Yorker and the curator of the New York Transit Museum. She has worked there since 2014.

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is president and CEO of the Institute for Community Living and a member of the Collaborative on Housing for Health.

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is co-author of "Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City" and a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at Keio University’s Almazan Architecture and Urban Studies Laboratory in Japan.

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is co-founder of Arnold Ventures LLC.

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is director of polling at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and founder and CEO of Social Sphere, a public opinion research firm. He advised on the Biden 2020 campaign.

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is a retired police professional and a National Institute of Justice Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholar.

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is a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. He also serves as the co-Director of the National Prevention Science Coalition.

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is a professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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is the managing partner of SeaChange Capital Partners, which provides grants, loans, analysis and advice to help nonprofits navigate complex challenges.

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is a fellow in the Litmus Program of the NYU Marron Institute. He’s also the director of the Task Force on Long Sentences at the Council on Criminal Justice and the former executive director of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.

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is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology and director of the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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is a professor of law at the Fordham University School of Law, and is the author of "Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform."

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is a freelance journalist who contributes to The New York Times and Bloomberg CityLab. He teaches at NYU and serves as a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future.

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is the lead of the Urban Institute’s Practice Area on Fair Housing, Land Use and Transportation. He has been conducting research on transportation planning for 15 years.

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is currently chairman of the board of the Legal Aid Society of New York City. He previously served as corporation counsel for the City of New York from 2014 to 2019.

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is an assistant professor of community and regional planning at Alabama A&M University. His research focuses on transportation finance, travel behavior and land use.

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is executive director of the Center for an Urban Future.

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is a professor at Johns Hopkins University directing the education policy master’s program. He is principal investigator for the National Research Center on Advanced Education.

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is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth."

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is a professor of history at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the author of "Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York."

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is a writer and urban planner. He previously served as chief researcher on urban projects and as editor-in-chief of the online magazine Urban Omnibus.

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is an associate professor of criminology and justice studies at Drexel University, director of the Center for Public Policy and the Justice Collaborative, and co-principal investigator of the Scandinavian Prison Project.

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is Gantcher Associate Professor of Business at Columbia University and Faculty Research Fellow at NBER, studying entrepreneurship.

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is a Ph.D. student in NYU’s linguistics department.

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is chief administrative judge of the New York State Unified Court System.

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is the Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy at Hunter College and the author of "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford). He has published previous books on New York mayors John Lindsay and Bill de Blasio.

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is the MPower Professor of African-American Studies, Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology at the University of Maryland.

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is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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is the Great Lakes reporter for The Trace and the author of "In These Streets: Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence."

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is a partner and team director at Gehl Studio.

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is president of the Revson Foundation.

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holds a joint appointment at NYU’s Marron Institute and School of Law developing strategies for pretrial freedom and justice reform. She is former executive director of The Bronx Defenders.

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is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Previously, she worked as an affordable housing developer in New York City.

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is an attorney in private practice who served as chief assistant district attorney under Manhattan DA Cy Vance, culminating a three-decade career in prosecution and criminal justice policy.

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is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University – Newark.

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is a data project associate at the University of Chicago Crime and Education Lab.

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is a PhD candidate in Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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is professor of political science at Ohio University. With Patricia Strach, she is co-author of "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1920."

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is Chief of Staff and Tech Policy Counsel at the Policing Project.

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is the attorney general of Minnesota.

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is the former Chief of the New York City Police Department, where he spent 34 years after joining as a cadet in 1988. He is now an executive advisor of the University of Chicago Policing Leadership Academy.

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is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut and director of the ARMS Center for gun-injury prevention. She is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.

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is a historian, novelist and journalist, who lives in New York City. His new book is "The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City."

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is an associate professor of economics at Simon Fraser University.

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is a professor of History at Columbia University and the author of "Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics."

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is a PhD student at Columbia Business School in the finance division with a research focus on household finance, asset pricing, and public policy.

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is managing director of public nonprofit solutions at Streetsense. A Fulbright Scholar and Watson Fellow, she is the author of "Improving Tenant Mix" and a former New York City planning commissioner.

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is a professor of political science at Pace University.

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is a forensic psychiatrist in New York City. She most recently served as Chief of Mental Health for Correctional Health Services until 2023.

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is a former judge for the New York Court of Claims. He was the first deputy chief administrative judge of the New York court system from 2012 to 2015, and became the chief administrative judge in 2015. He retired in 2022.

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is the project director of Neighborhood Safety Initiative (NSI) at the Center for Court Innovation, a lead implementation partner in the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP).

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is a researcher, policy analyst and writer based in Montgomery, Ala., who works with marginalized communities and public officials to document systems and collaboratively develop improvements in politically and socially complex environments.

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is an expert in nonprofits and public policy who taught at Indiana University. He served as CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) from 2001 to 2003.

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is the executive director of the Children’s Law Center in New York City and a former New York Family Court judge in the Bronx.

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is a freelance writer and nonprofit professional.

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is president of the Fund for the City of New York and Distinguished Clinical Professor in the Leadership and Innovation Program at NYU Steinhardt.

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is the author of "Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction" and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.

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is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, lecturer at Princeton University, MacArthur Fellow and lifelong resident of the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx.

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is the Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Professor of Law Emeritus at Berkeley Law and the co-author, with Edward Rubin, of "Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Federal Courts Reformed America’s Prisons."

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is a visiting fellow in international and public affairs at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. He is the author of "Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress — And How to Bring It Back."

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is chief policy counsel for the Council on Criminal Justice.

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builds digital products, scales online businesses, designs systems.

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is an adjunct professor in political science at Cascadia Community College and Olympic College. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

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is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Irish America and The Recorder. He is the co-author of "An Irish Passion for Justice".

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is a land use lawyer, architect and founder of Urban Factors consultancy. She is a former chair of the NYC Board of Standards and Appeals.

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is Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, studying neighborhoods, social networks and research methods.

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is the author of "Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950" and "Hong Kong and British Culture, 1945-97." He teaches at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

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is a research associate professor at Georgetown University and the Director of CARA Catholic Polls at Georgetown’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

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is the author of "Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song," host of the Decarcerated Podcast and owner of his own social impact endeavor, The Precedential Group Social Enterprises, and its nonprofit arm, Be Precedential, Inc.

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is a Research Assistant at The Immigration Lab.

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is a senior program officer at the Revson Foundation and former executive director of the New York City Board of Correction. She continues to monitor prisons as a board officer of the Correctional Association of New York.

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is a clinical professor at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

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is the author of "City of Ambition: FDR, La Guardia, and the Making of Modern New York." His next book, "City of Fortune: Inequality and the Remaking of New York," will be published by W.W. Norton next June. He teaches at Williams College.

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is director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and a professor at Michigan State University. He is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.

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is the founder of Wingspan, a digital marketing and communications consultancy. He was press secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his first term.

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is a professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management at work on a book about presidential assassination attempts and 20th-century political violence.

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is Director of Technology Law and Policy at the Policing Project.

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is assistant professor of economics and public policy at Cornell University.

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is executive director at the Policing Project at the NYU School of Law.

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is CEO of the Women’s Prison Association, supporting women impacted by incarceration. She is former executive director of the NYC Board of Correction.

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is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Princeton University and a research affiliate at the UChicago Crime Lab and the Princeton Violence and Inequality Project.

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is a columnist at The Washington Post who focuses on the intersection of business, economics and public policy.

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is adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

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is a professor of law emeritus at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, who was staff attorney from 1973 to 1977 and project director from 1977 to 1980 of the Prisoners’ Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society.

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is the director of the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance and a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and the author of "Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment."

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is the economics editor of Commonplace, a fellow at New America and the author of "The New Class War."

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is an urban ecologist in the Department of Biological Sciences at Fordham University.

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is the executive director of the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He previously served as research director and, later, director of jail reform at the Center for Justice Innovation.

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is the director of the ACLP at New York Law School, a regulatory law and policy program that studies broadband and utility issues.

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is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Irish America and The Recorder. He is the co-author of "An Irish Passion for Justice."

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is an associate professor of history at Bard High School Early College, Queens. He is the author of "Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City."

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is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University.

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is a principal epidemiologist at a startup. She worked for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2013-2022.

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is an assistant policy researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at Pardee RAND Graduate School.

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is a pop culture critic who grew up in the Bronx and the author of "Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar."

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is a senior fellow and research professor at NYU’s Marron Institute. She held senior positions in philanthropy, government and nonprofits, including director of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations.

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is the former executive director of the Office of Pretrial Justice Initiatives in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.

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is the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and former director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation.

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is commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services and a member of the Collaborative on Housing for Health.

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is an assistant professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is also an affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and a researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

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is a drug policy researcher from Portland, Oregon and the founder of BeatsOverdose, an organization that provides overdose prevention services to the music and entertainment industry.

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is the Regional Plan Association's vice president for housing and neighborhood planning.

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is a JD/PhD student in Sociology and a member of the Justice Lab at Columbia University.

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is director of the National Institute of Justice.

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is an urban policy consultant and writer. He writes the newsletter Public Comment and is working on a book about cities with an expected publication date of Fall 2026.

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is a former reporter for the New York Daily News and the Wall Street Journal and the director of the documentary "Koch" (2012).

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is a professor of sociology at Colby College and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center in Washington, DC. His most recent book is "Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture."

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is an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and the director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute.

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is senior vice president for law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety.

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is the senior director for gun violence prevention at the Center for American Progress.

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is a writer based in New York City.

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is a Manhattan Institute senior fellow and author of the book "Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets From the Car."

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is a professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice at the University of Chicago. She researches contemporary urban governance at the intersection of nonprofit organizations, government and communities.

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is the founder of Project Unloaded and a two-decade veteran of the gun violence prevention movement. She lives in Chicago.

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is the managing director of justice initiatives at Chicago Beyond, a national philanthropic organization committed to addressing systemic inequity by backing solutions led by people closest to the issues.

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is a New York City politics and transit reporter and a transportation and land use fellow at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management.

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is a journalist focused on criminal justice - specifically, victims of violent crime, violence prevention, policing and punishment policies. His work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Trace, Slate, The New York Times and Politico Magazine.

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is senior counsel at Everytown.

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is the creative director at Design for Progress, a firm that helped create Vital City's brand identity. She has been a brand strategy and design consultant for nonprofits for 20 years.

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is a professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is co-author of works on the politics of urban governance and corruption history.

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is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the founder of AmericanViolence.org.

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is senior vice president for NYC Health + Hospitals Correctional Health Services.

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is a senior research associate at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Urban Tech Hub, and the author of "Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia" and "Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car."

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is the director of research at Vital City and a dedicated gun violence prevention researcher. Before joining Vital City, Paul served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis.

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is founder of Civic Transformation Advisors. He previously co-authored “How NYC Moves” with the Mayor’s Office, exploring how to use technology to accelerate city transportation reviews.

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is the executive director of the Center for Public Enterprise.

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is dean of the Rossier School of Education at USC. He was born in Brooklyn.

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is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Rossier School of Education and a distinguished professor of education at the University of Southern California.

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is the climate and inequality campaigns director for New York Communities for Change.

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is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose research focuses on the public budgeting process and financial management of state and local governments.

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is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. He is the author of four books, including "Back from the Brink," an account of New York City's 1990s crime drop.

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is a distinguished professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and Department of Criminology. He has researched drug markets for the last 40 years. His work was supported by the National Science Foundation.

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is professor emeritus of public policy and economics at Duke University. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and honorary fellow in the American Society of Criminology.

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is the principal researcher at the Eno Center for Transportation and a fellow at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management. He is the author of three books: "Politics Across the Hudson," "Last Subway" and "Mobilizing the Metropolis."

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is a distinguished faculty fellow for research and professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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is Vital City’s former editorial associate. In 2024, she completed her MA in Media, Culture and Communication at NYU.

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is the Plimpton Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

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is the Nick Ohnell fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of "Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most."

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is a professor of economics at Barnard College and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a co-author of "Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime and the Pursuit of Justice."

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is a freelance writer. She was previously a reporter for Commercial Observer and managing editor of New York YIMBY.

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is the executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to advancing sustainable and equitable transportation to reduce climate emissions and increase accessibility and mobility options.

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is an associate professor in the departments of linguistics and social and cultural analysis at New York University.

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is the chief strategy officer at Tides Advocacy.

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is a reporter for The City, with a special focus on criminal justice and the City’s prison system. He is the co-author, along with Graham Rayman, of "Rikers: An Oral History."

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is the CEO of Robin Hood, one of the nation's leading anti-poverty organizations.

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is the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Fund for the City of New York and the director of the AI for Nonprofits Sprint.

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is a professor of law at Columbia Law School, where he researches, writes and teaches state and local government law.

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is the CEO of Robin Hood.

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is a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, professor at the University of Toronto and distinguished fellow with The Kresge Foundation.

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is a senior policy analyst at the Niskanen Center.

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is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia, where he was faculty from 1946-1970. He wrote seminal works on American political and intellectual history.

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is the former president of ProPublica and assistant publisher of the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of the Second Rough Draft newsletter.

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is a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and the author of "Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See."

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is a senior fellow at the Schwartz Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy and the author of "Unequal Cities."

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is the Walter L. Brown Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of "City Power: Urban Governance in a Global Age."

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is the former editor of The Chief-Leader, a weekly newspaper focused on municipal government and labor unions.

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is the senior organizer for Metro IAF affiliates in Brooklyn and Queens and staff coordinator of Metro IAF citywide strategies.

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is a New York State Assembly member.

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is with the Recoding America Fund to build state capacity. He worked at the NYC Department of Education under Mayor Bloomberg and served as deputy assistant to the president in the Biden administration.

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is distinguished service professor of political science emeritus at SUNY Cortland. He is the author of multiple books on gun policy and related topics.

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is a public affairs officer at NYU and former reporter for New York Newsday. He is the co-author of "An Irish Passion for Justice," a biography of Mayor William O’Dwyer’s younger brother Paul, the New York politician, activist and lawyer (1907-1998).

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is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and an affiliate of AEI’s James Q. Wilson Program in K-12 Education Studies, where he focuses on K-12 education, curriculum, teaching, school choice and charter schooling.

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is director of the Cannabis Economics Group and an economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He co-wrote the book "Can Legal Weed Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics."

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is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Criminology.

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is the William T. Comfort III Professor of Law at NYU Law School, where he teaches and writes about constitutional law, administrative law, local government law and federalism.

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is a senior economist at RAND and codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and RAND Gun Policy in America initiative. She was selected as the 2025 Mark Kleiman Memorial Lecturer.

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is principal of the municipal integrity team at Bloomberg Associates. She is former NYC Department of Investigation commissioner and founder of the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School.

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is a writer from New York City.

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is an obituaries reporter for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1983. He served as urban affairs correspondent from 2005 to 2015 and is author of works on New York history.

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is CEO of Sam Schwartz Pedestrian Traffic Management and former traffic commissioner and chief engineer of the New York City Department of Transportation.

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is a professor of sociology at The University of Arizona and an expert on the police, gender, race and organizational inequality. She is the author of "Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence."

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is a sociologist and associate research scholar at the Columbia University Justice Lab studying punishment, inequality and gender.

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is the principal in the Law Offices of Sara Norman, located in San Francisco, California. Previously, she served as deputy director of the Prison Law Office, where she managed a nonprofit devoted to class-action system reform litigation.

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is a senior research associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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is an appointee of then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, served as the interim president of New York City Transit, as an MTA board member and a safety regulator for the U.S. rail system during the Obama administration.

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is the director of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. She is also an assistant professor at the NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.

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is the director of the Center for Criminal Justice Research at MDRC; her work focuses on systemic problems in criminal justice and the translation of research evidence to practice in the service of real-world problem solving.

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is the founding partner of Townsend Law and previously served as the deputy commissioner of intelligence, investigation and trials at the New York City Department of Correction.

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is a leader of Google Maps disability inclusion projects, helping people worldwide find accessible places, transit and walking routes. He is also a disability rights activist with the Elevator Action Group.

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is a former senior official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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is the senior advisor for reimagining and reform at the Policing Project at the NYU School of Law.

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is director of housing and economic development studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, which focuses on constructive change in New York City and New York State government finances and services.

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is Mancur Olson Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland.

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is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of sociology and Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University.

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is the president of Bank Street College of Education and a former New York City Department of Education deputy chancellor.

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is also known as “Da Homeless Hero.” He is a housing rights advocate, policy reformer and real estate developer.

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is executive vice president and Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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is dean and professor of public service at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

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is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco and author of "At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America."

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is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of "Homelessness in America."

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is the Derek Bok Professor of Urban Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and was formerly a prosecutor and mayor in Indianapolis, and deputy mayor of New York City.

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is an American emergency physician, gun violence researcher and professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

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is a transit reporter at WNYC Radio and Gothamist, and co-author of the On the Way weekly newsletter.

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is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. He has conducted extensive research on drug courts and other treatment interventions for people in the criminal legal system.

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is a partner in Blue Raven LLP. He served in the Cuomo administration as secretary to the governor and chair of Empire State Development. He teaches at New York Law School.

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is the E. Kazis and B. Schore Professor of Real Estate at Columbia Business School.

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is a principal at HR&A Advisors, an economic development and public policy consulting firm, where she works with clients on place-based economic development.

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is a partner in Blue Raven LLP. She served as Chief Administrative Office of the Gateway Development Corporation and was general counsel of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation.

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is former deputy commissioner for collaborative policing at the NYPD and author of "Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime."

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is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oslo and a fellow in the Center for Public Policy at Drexel University. She is the co-principal investigator of the Scandinavian Prison Project.

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is an independent consultant who served as the deputy executive director of the Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP) in New York City from 2018 to 2022.

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is a reporter on health and justice for The New York Times and other publications, and teaches public policy at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.

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is a board member of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and trustee of The Climate Reality Project. He is a member of the governing council of The Wilderness Society.

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is the incoming executive director of NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals.

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is the author of several books, including "Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics." He teaches U.S. history and politics at the College of Staten Island.

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is an associate research professor at the University of Maryland, founding director of its Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction, and a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice.

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is the architecture critic for N+1. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Architecture, Architectural Record and other publications.

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is an architectural historian and exhibition curator focusing on New York City’s built environment. He teaches at Columbia, CUNY and the University of Texas’ UTNY program.

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is an NYU Marron Institute fellow, where he leads the Sustaining Places Initiative.

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is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of sociology at Columbia University, where he researches poverty, incarceration and inequality.

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is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and founding director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. She was previously a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

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is the CEO and co-founder of Social Finance, a national nonprofit and registered investment advisor.

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is the Weinfeld Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and faculty director of NYU’s Furman Center. She served as NYC’s deputy mayor of housing and economic development from 2019 to 2021.

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is research project director at the CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance.

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is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he teaches courses on New York City history. He is the author of “The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York."

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is the former commissioner of New York City’s Probation and Correction Departments. He is a visiting fellow with the Pinkerton Foundation.

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is a psychologist and senior clinical policy advisor for the Center for Justice Innovation.

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is an architect, urbanist and author based in New York City. He is a Vital City contributing writer. His latest book is "The Architecture of Urbanity" (2024). He is also the author of "A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America" (2013).

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ia author of "Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World," and a historian and landscape designer in Los Angeles.

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is a former Metro editor of The New York Times and co-author, with Joshua A. Miele, of "Connecting Dots: A Blind Life."

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is professor emeritus in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where he researches crime, policing and the role of the public and community organizations in crime prevention and police reform.

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