Project Team

Leadership

Sharon Dolovich, Project Director
Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law
Director of UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program

Aaron Littman, Project Deputy Director
Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law

Staff

Liz DeWolf, Manager of Stakeholder Relations
Michael Everett, Data Science Fellow
Danielle Flores, Project Coordinator
Hope Johnson, Data Science Fellow
Josh Manson, Staff Writer
Neal Marquez, Data Science Fellow
Poornima Rajeshwar, Policy Fellow
Victoria Rossi, Project Investigator
Erika Tyagi, Data Science Fellow

Former Staff

Chase Hommeyer, Data Science Fellow
Hunter Nagai, Project Coordinator
Kalind Parish, Data Science Fellow

Contributing Researchers

The UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project benefits from the generous donation of time, energy, skills, consultation, and other support from over 100 part-time researchers who work across various project initiatives.  

Advisors

Maddy deLone
Ben Nyblade

Research Assistants

Jack Eyers
Keegan Hawkins
Cooper Mayne
Danielle Sze

Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Grace DiLaura, Former Data Lead
Wilner Alvarez
William Bellamy
Cassidy Bennett
Hope Bentley
Jenna Bernard
Zerxes Bhadha
Ashleen Blaettler
John Bica
Beth Bishop
Adam Brandy
Madeline Brout
Michaelle Burbank
Dhruv Chakraborty
Meichen Chen
Jessica Copenhaver
Olivia Diab
Peter Dickson
Isaac Dienstag
Samantha Flattery
Rashi Garg
Morgan Elizabeth Godvin
Alison Gordon
Kristen Goss
Doreen Govari
Linda He
Arjun Kapallur
Sarah Kosic
Alix Lacoste
Amanda Lamb
Angel Lee
Erin Lee
Steve Levick
Belinda Li
Tony Li
Charlie Liebenberg
Cooper Mayne
Catherine Matsuda
Emmalee McCarthy
Amaris Monte
Heather Monte
Andrew Morgenstern
Amy Munro
Samantha Noor
Saee Paliwal
Harshini Pyata
Monse Reyes
Dorah Rosen
Patrice Ruane
Raphael San Andres
Kevin Shang
Heaven Strouse
Rachel Stine-Gil
Dara Tan
Kayla Teng
Aiden Tepper
Ashwin Thomas
Sarah True
Sruthi Veeragandham
Adam Visokay
Evie Zavidow
Julie Zalinski
Kevin Zhao

Policy Analysts

Grace DiLaura, Policy Lead
Ilina Bhor
Ciara Brewer
Mercedes Davis
Kim De La Cruz
D. Korbin Felder
Morgan Elizabeth Godvin
Jason Ho
Matt Kellner
Charlie Kelsey
Amanda Lamb
Kevin Lee
Tony Li
Lyndon Liang
Gabrielle Mazero
Eireann O’Grady
Ellie Pearce
Harshini Pyata
Katy Ramos
Abraham Rinck
Dawy Rkasnuam
Kathyrn Rosenfeld
Olivia Shields
Chloe Smith
Shelby Weaver
Kennedy Willis
Richard Young

Compassionate Release Researchers

Constance Chan
Jenna Conwisar
Maria Demarco
Amanda Dworkin
Nicholas Dyess
Jack Eyers
Isabelle Geczky
Ilse Gomez
Dhruva Krishna
Jacob Kwitek
Keith Lawton
Rachel Levin
Sunny Perkins
Rachel Ryu
Ali Stack

Vaccine Researchers

Alison Angoff
Ellie Baines
Rebecca Bernhardt
Andrea Close
Talia Housik
Michelle Kelley
Steve Levick
Gabrielle Mazero
Chloe Michaelidis
Amy Munro
Zach Wolens

Rebecca Fordon, Health is Justice Lead
Ben Woolley, Immigration Filings Lead
Joanne Choi, Former Immigration Filings Lead
Callen Lowell, Former Immigration Filings Lead
Bradley Anderton
William Applegate
Jaz Buckley
Camille Halley
Talia Housik
Rachel Hudson
Natalie Kaufman
Cooper Mayne
Nicole Miller
Monse Reyes
Chloe Smith

Naila Segule, Youth Team Lead
Ashwini Velchamy, Youth Team Lead
Yasmine Tager, Former Youth Team Lead
Alex Bakes
Jessica Behmanesh
Ritika Bhattacharya
Caroline Cummings
Zach Dai
Ian Duke
Caitlyn Handy
Jess Johnson
Erik Kruse
Sophie Kupetz
Lydia Lopez
Natalie Lozovsky
Nehemiah MacDonald
Alia Nahra
Olivia Osborne
Liz Soyemi

Investigative Researchers

Ian Duke
Catherine Kang
Rebecca Kellum
Laure Kohne
Julia Rowell

Releases Researchers

Maddy deLone, Releases Data Lead
Andrés Fernández Carrasco, Releases Data Lead
Ananya Prakash, Releases Data Lead
Uma Arunachalam
Julia DiMartino
Ale Fernandez Carrasco
Louisa Fusco
Alie Herbst
John Holzheimer
Em Lassen
Austin Machado
Lillian Rand
Ian Stringham
Rachel Strodel
Jana Sun
Heather Warren
Baylee Wechsler
Celeste Winston
Kari Zimmerman

Public Records Researchers

Amanda Carlin
Cameron Chapman-Pinto
Myles Crandall
Siew Fen Eow
Kelly Halverson
Pierre Khoury
Brian Louis
Kayla Malone
Nicole Miller
Eva Nofri
Lisa Patel
Aris Prince
Olivia Scheyer
Zhening Zhang

Grassroots and Community Organizing Researchers

Jordan Palmer, Grassroots Data Lead
Cecilia Bobbitt, Grassroots Data Lead
Fátima Avellán
Taylor Fox
Samuel LeBarron
Jordan Nagai
Alejandro Santana
Jessica Vived
Josephine Wang
Evie Zavidow
Sara Zukerman

Immigration Detention Researchers

Theresa Cheng, Immigration Data Lead
Ishan Nagpal, Immigration Data Lead
Razzi Abuissa
Minali Aggarwal
Andrea Allen
Wilner Alvarez
Sandeep Bansal
Molly Calhoon
Dhruv Chakraborty
Samantha Chung
Mercedes Davis
Kevin Fan
Cyrin Anne Geluz
Jade Harvey
Michael Huynh
Sukhmeen Kahlon
Nick Kahmann
Rebecca Kellum
Ben Laufer
Charles Dudley Lee
Kevin Lee
Lyndon Liang
Jeanette Lin
Vincent Liu
William McKenna
Shelby McNabb
Bailey Miller
Nicole Miller
Anjali Rajaratnam
Tyler Rivera
Lauren Rosenfeld
Lucie Rosenthal
Nina Sedlacek
Naila Segule
Samantha Step
Ananya Subrahmanian
Shivani Sundaram
Ashwin Thomas
Emily Wannamaker
Izzy Wiesenthal
Ivan Zeavin-Moss
Jennifer Zhang

Oral Historians

Monique Cardona
Lily Johnson
Bailey Miller
AK Shee
Ali Stack
Olivia Zacks

Social Media Specialists

Haller Jackson
Bailey Miller
Laura A Peña Marichal
Lucie Rosenthal
Emily Wannamaker
Madison Wells