Anna Harvey
Anna
Harvey
President
Social Science Research Council

Anna Harvey is President of the Social Science Research Council; Professor of Politics, Affiliated Professor of Data Science and Law, and Director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University; and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Expert Panel. The Public Safety Lab works with teams of social scientists and data scientists to support more effective and more equitable criminal justice practices. The Lab’s projects include the Jail Data Initiative, a large-scale effort to collect daily individual-level jail records in over 1,000 county jails in the United States, and the Prosecutorial Reform Initiative, a collaborative effort with district attorney’s offices to develop more effective prosecutorial policies. Professor Harvey is the author of two scholarly books and a co-authored casebook, in addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio University.