Dana Weiner provides analytic consultation and policy guidance to child welfare and juvenile justice systems across the country in order to improve the alignment of services and supports with the needs and distribution of populations. She served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services from 2008 to 2014 and as Commissioner on the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission since 2011. Dr. Weiner teaches “Data for Policy Analysis and Management” to graduate students at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and a B.S. from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.
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Data-Driven Policy Making
Challenges and Opportunities in Unprecedented Times
Thursday, March 18, 2021, 1pm EDT
Event Overview
How can social science research play an active role in shaping policy? How has the pandemic altered, obstructed, or accelerated this relationship? In cities and states across the country, policy makers confronting an array of challenges — in public safety, juvenile justice, education — increasingly turn to social scientists to help understand their constituents’ needs, and then design, test, and target interventions to address them. Dana Weiner and Max Kapustin will share firsthand experience working with policy makers to generate and apply evidence with scientific rigor to these difficult problems, highlighting the challenges and opportunities presented by the unprecedented disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What You'll Learn
- How social science research can shape child welfare and public safety policy
- How COVID-19 has affected both research and policy making
- How systems have leveraged data, research, and evidence to adapt to unprecedented disruption
Speakers
Dana Weiner
Senior Policy Fellow
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Senior Policy Fellow, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Max Kapustin
Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell College of Human Ecology
Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Max Kapustin is an assistant professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. He studies interventions to reduce urban gun violence and improve the life outcomes of disadvantaged youth and adults, using field experiments and other methods to determine their causal effects. The programs Dr. Kapustin studies include cognitive behavioral therapy-based interventions, housing assistance, and police reforms. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2016. Prior to coming to Cornell, Dr. Kapustin was a Senior Research Director at the University of Chicago Crime and Education Labs from 2016 to 2020.
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