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Dr. Andrea M. Headley is an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and an Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law. At the heart of her research lies the question of how we can create a more effective and equitable criminal justice system. She is currently on the Committee for the National Academies of Sciences Workshop on Law Enforcement Use of Predictive Policing Approaches, and she is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Headley’s research has focused primarily on policing and public safety to understand how organizational-, managerial-, and individual-level factors affect service delivery and outcomes, with a keen focus on racial inequities. She conducts both quantitative and qualitative research, working actively with criminal justice agencies and community-based organizations. Examples of her prior work include evaluating police training, assessing police-community relations in communities of color, evaluating race and police use of force, analyzing accountability mechanisms such as police body-worn cameras and civilian oversight boards, and exploring the racial and gendered norms and cultures in policing. She has been featured as a subject matter expert in news outlets such as ABC, CBS, NPR, and PBS News.

Combining insights from public management, organizational behavior, social equity and criminal justice, her research has been published in journals including the Public Administration Review, the American Review of Public Administration, the Journal of Criminal Justice, and Policing and Society and funded by the American Institutes for Research, Arnold Ventures, Department of Justice, National Science Foundation, and OSU’s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center.

Prior appointments include Visiting Scholar of Race, Policing and Crime at the National Policing Institute, Assistant Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in Public Affairs from the Department of Public Policy and Administration and an MS in Criminal Justice from Florida International University.