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More About NCCD
Staff Member Listing
| Rula Adranly |
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Human Resource Specialist |
| Antoinette Davis |
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Senior Research Associate |
| Nicole Dickens |
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Research Associate |
| Kristina Dobyns |
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Research Associate |
| Caroline Glesmann |
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Research Associate |
| Karel Herrington |
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Senior Contract Manager |
| Dana Linda |
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Research Associate |
| Michael Lok |
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Research Associate |
| Susan Marchionna |
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Director of Communications |
| Tiffany Morris |
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Research Associate |
| Belinda Nip |
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Senior Accountant |
| Priscilla Olivas |
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Research Associate |
| Samuel Ruiz |
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Research Associate |
| Fabiana Silva |
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Research Associate |
| Sean Taylor |
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Invoicing Specialist |
| Linh Vuong |
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Research Associate |
| Judy Wallen |
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Research Associate |
| Judy Wallen |
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Research Associate |
About Our Staff
Toni Aleman
Toni is the Director of Administration for NCCD. She directs operations for the Midwest Office and is responsible for the office's human resources, coordinates its legal issues, directs infrastructure, and develops special events. Ms. Aleman also manages the JAIS and CAIS projects and development areas for the agency. Ms. Aleman has a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Isami Arifuku, D.Crim.
Isami is a Senior Researcher, has a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently the Coordinator of Research for NCCD. She is the Assistant Director of the Asian Pacific islander Youth Violence Prevention Center, a partnership between NCCD and the University of Hawai`i. Her previous experience includes a five-year research project funded by the National Institute of Justice, historical research for the State of California, small business development for a consulting firm, administrative analysis and research for the Chancellor's Office at the University of California, Berkeley, and teaching at Bay Area colleges and universities.
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S. Christopher Baird
Christopher Baird is the Executive Vice President of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Children’s Research Center and has directed the Midwest Office in Madison, Wisconsin since 1985. He has designed risk assessment, classification and case management systems for child welfare, adult probation and parole, and juvenile justice systems. He developed and managed the National Institute of Corrections Model Probation and Parole program which was implemented in 31 state agencies and hundreds of county probation departments throughout the United States. Mr. Baird served as principal investigator on two grants from the National Institute of Justice, including a comprehensive evaluation of the Florida Community Control Program. From 1990-1997, he directed NCCD’s Children’s Research Center which developed risk assessment and decision making systems used in Child Protection Services for over 50 state and county agencies in the United States and Australia. He and colleagues wrote a comprehensive evaluation of the system in Michigan assessing its impact on subsequent abuse and neglect. He directed and authored a national study funded by the Office of Child Abuse and Neglect (OCAN) that compared child protective services risk assessment systems in four jurisdictions. He is currently conducting research for the Casey Foundation’s workforce initiative.
Mr. Baird has authored numerous journal articles and other publications on research, program development and management issues in child welfare, juvenile justice, and corrections. In 1992, he received the University of Cincinnati Award from the American Probation and Parole Association for outstanding research contributions to the field. In 2001, he and his colleague Dennis Wagner received the Pro Humanitate Literacy Award for "The Relative Validity of Actuarial and Consensus-Based Risk Assessment Systems" from the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare. In 2004, he received the Grace B. Flandeau Aware for his contributions to child welfare. His educational background includes a Masters degree in Economics.
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Robert E. DeComo, Ph.D.
Robert is Senior Program Manager in the Madison office and has been employed at NCCD since the end of 1989. Prior to joining the Council, he was self-employed as a management consultant providing planning and technical services to federal, state and local corrections agencies. He has also served as the Deputy Director for Planning, Research and Information Systems for the South Carolina Department of Parole and Community Corrections. Dr. DeComo has also held positions in the legislative branch of government, as Staff Director of the Joint Legislative Committee on Children of the South Carolina General Assembly and as an Intern to the Senate Judiciary-Criminal Committee of the Florida Legislature. Dr. DeComo received his Ph.D. in Criminology from the School of Criminology at the Florida State University in 1981. He received his Master's degree from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and his Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Maryland.
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Carolina Guzman, MPH
Carolina Guzman, MPH is a Senior Research Associate at NCCD. She works on issues of race and justice, mental health in the juvenile justice system, and provides support to the the Latin@ Youth Development Center. Carolina has designed and implemented evaluation and strategic plan projects on domestic violence, criminal justice, children’s health, mental health, and education. She has expertise working in technically and logistically complex projects that incorporate community-driven strategies to build capacity and promote sustainability. Ms. Guzman directed the design and implement ation of the evaluation plan for the Mentally Ill Offender Reduction Grant to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. She also directed the Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Project in the Latino community in Oakland and coordinated the Domestic Violence Death Review Teams, which developed guidelines by which cases are defined, evaluated, and data is appropriately collected and disseminated.
Prior to joining NCCD, Carolina served as a Senior Epidemiologist at the San Francisco Public Health Department, Environmental Health Services, where she led the evaluation and research of land use, economic development and labor safety projects. Carolina is an immigrant from El Salvador and has a graduate degree in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Chris Hartney
Chris Hartney, a Senior Research Associate, has worked at NCCD since 2001. He has a background in research methods and design, instrument development, data management, statistics, and project management in the fields of criminal justice, mental and physical health, toxic exposure, academic assessment, and human factors engineering.
Recent NCCD projects include the development of a Structured Decision Making system for the District of Columbia and management of the final year of the OJJDP-funded, multiyear National Evaluation of Parent’s Anonymous, including all data analysis and reporting. Chris was NCCD’s data manager responsible for data coding, statistical analysis, and reporting for the mental health component of OJJDP’s major nationwide study of youth in detention, the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement, and for a comprehensive study of incarceration characteristics and recidivism in the Hawai`i Youth Correctional Facility for the State of Hawai`i. He was the project manager of a survey of the probation and mental health departments of every California county, assessing each system for mental health care delivery to juvenile justice-involved and at-risk youth. He was project manager of a nationwide census of Community Assessment Centers on behalf of OJJDP, which included a screening of every juvenile probation department in the United States, an extensive survey of all existing CACs, and intensive site visits of several centers. On behalf of The California Endowment, Chris prepared a detailed descriptive report on health care access for California’s juvenile justice and foster care youths. He was the data analyst for an evaluation of the San Francisco Community Assessment and Referral Center on behalf of the SF Mayor's Criminal Justice Council and the State of California Board of Corrections.
Chris was lead author on several NCCD publications documenting issues of import in the juvenile and criminal justice systems, including "The Nation’s Most Punitive States for Women," "Youth under Age 18 in the Adult Criminal Justice System," "US Rates of Incarceration: A Global Perspective," and, with other NCCD staff, "And Justice For Some: Differential Treatment of Youth of Color in the Justice System."
Prior positions of note include project manager of two large-scale epidemiologic health studies of the mental and physical health impact on communities exposed to industrial chemicals, and data manager of a series of occupational exposure studies. He is co-author of numerous published articles related to these and other studies and has presented study findings before a variety of professional, governmental, and community groups.
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Kristen Johnson
Kristen, a Senior Researcher with NCCD, has extensive experience with data analysis, project management, data collection, and technical support. Since joining NCCD, she has worked on a variety of child protective services and juvenile justice studies, including risk assessment research for the New York Department of Social Services, New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, California Department of Social Services, Colorado Department of Human Services, and the Maryland Department of Juvenile Justice. She is currently working on an ongoing evaluation of the State of Michigan's child protective services and foster care services. Prior to joining NCCD/CRC, Ms. Johnson was employed with the Center for Addiction Research and Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison as a program analyst for a clinical intervention trial. Ms. Johnson has an M.A. in Policy Analysis and a B.A. in Sociology with a concentration in analysis and research from the University of Wisconsin.
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Barry Krisberg, Ph.D.
Barry has been the President of NCCD for fourteen years. He is known nationally for his research and expertise on juvenile justice issues and is called upon as a resource for professionals and the media. Dr. Krisberg received his master's degree in criminology and a doctorate in sociology, both from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining NCCD, Dr. Krisberg held several education posts. He was faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley; Dr. Krisberg also was an adjunct professor with the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs School at the University of Minnesota. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Legal Studies at UC Berkeley and holds an adjunct Professorship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hawai`i.
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Fred Mills
Mr. Mills brings over 40 years of progressive experience in both the private and public sector in the areas of human resources management and program development and implementation strategies in youth and adult corrections. Prior to assuming full time duties with Mills and Associates in 1994, Mr. Mills worked for over 34 years for the State of California in positions of progressively increasing responsibility. Mr. Mills' background includes graduate courses at the University of California, Irvine and Rand Corporation. Mr. Mills has also obtained a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Life Time Teaching Credential from the California Community Colleges. As Deputy Agency Secretary, Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, he represented the Agency Secretary and Governor in a variety of capacities. Mr. Mills was responsible for planning, developing and implementing the first California Youth Authority's Free Venture Program (a public/private work and training partnership program) in 1984.
Mr. Mills has served on a variety public and governmental committees and boards. He has the ability is to coordinate varied and complex activities; gain the cooperation of professional and administrative personnel at all governmental levels; stimulate community interest and assistance in the governmental arena; and direct operational policies and procedures.
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Vanessa Patino
Vanessa Patino is a Senior Research Associate with NCCD. Her research interests include: juvenile justice, minority issues, particularly Latino youth, policy development, and youth advocacy. She has worked on several Florida projects including Educational Connections, a project to teach research and policy development to college students interested in issues such as minority overrepresentation and gender; a comprehensive planning study that examined the implications of alternative juvenile justice policies and programming (research-based) in Florida; and a juvenile detention study to examine the conditions of confinement through a representative sample of youth and staff throughout Florida. Other projects at the national level include the OJJDP’s Rural Gang Initiative and the NIC/CWLA Children of Incarcerated Parents Evaluation. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology and a Masters in Public Administration, with a specialization in Juvenile Justice Policy from the Florida State University. Prior to working at NCCD, Vanessa was a case manager for a juvenile diversion program.
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Peter Quigley
Mr. Quigley serves as a Vice President of Information Services with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. For the past 28 years, Mr. Quigley has worked in research and policy making capacities in the fields of juvenile justice, adult corrections, and child welfare. He has a Bachelors degree in Political Science with a minor in Sociology from Northern Illinois University. Since joining NCCD in 1986, he has been responsible for a broad variety of projects and tasks, including risk and needs assessment, workload analysis, and information technology.
Mr. Quigley has extensive knowledge of the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. He built the database used by Cook County, Illinois to track and evaluate the effectiveness of the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI). He is currently involved with the California Department of Social Services, New Jersey Department of Children and Families being responsible for the design and development of database applications to support Structured Decision Making® (SDM) in those states. Using relational database systems like Oracle and SQL Server with a Dot Net interface, Mr. Quigley and his staff have built statewide, 24/7 applications and modules that support SDM® procedures with seamless integration of SDM and other enterprise databases.
Most recently, he has directed the SafeMeasures® system for performance and outcome measurement in child welfare to a place of national distinction and prominence. This innovative analytical and reporting system takes data complex relational database systems and, using Internet technology, presents meaningful graphical displays for various case outcome and performance measures on the desktop of supervisors and caseworkers. More importantly, users can point to any portion of a chart and "drill down" to the list of cases underlying it.
Mr. Quigley has also consulted internationally. Most recently, he assisted the State of South Australia design and implement a case management process and information system modeled upon work done in the United States.
Apart from information systems design, he has made a significant contribution to workload analysis for social services. He has directed and participated in several workload studies involving statewide agencies. Mr. Quigley has extensive experience in the design, implementation, and analysis of workload studies. He has been responsible for a number of projects in both child welfare and criminal justice agencies which have estimated overall staffing requirements, as well as regional staffing allocations. Project activities have included, presentation of project goals and methodology, design sessions with managers, development of forms and instructions, training of staff, data entry and analysis programs, and the authoring of final reports. Some recent workload studies: California Child Welfare Structured Decision Making (SDM) (present); Nevada Department of Probation and Parole (1998); Colorado Department of Corrections (1994); Alabama Department of Pardons and Paroles (1992); Sacramento County Probation Department (1991); and Ventura County Probation Department (1990).
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Richard Tillson
Dick is a Senior Fellow at NCCD and has worked primarily on the Comprehensive Strategy Project since 1997. Mr. Tillson's career has spanned 38 years in the correctional field working throughout California for various youth correctional facilities as well as in Indianapolis where he worked as a Probation Officer for Marion County Juvenile Court. Dick Tillson has a BA in Social Welfare from Central State College, Ohio, an MA in Social Work from Indiana University, Bloomington and is a Criminal Justice Fellow, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Dennis Wagner, Ph.D.
Dennis Wagner has over 25 years experience as a researcher or administrator in juvenile and adult corrections and social service programs. He has been the Director of Research at the Midwest Office of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) since 1989.
Prior to 1989, he was the evaluation officer for the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Health and Social Services - an agency with an annual budget of 10 billion dollars and responsibility for providing correctional, health, income maintenance and social services to all state residents. As evaluation officer, he was responsible for conducting evaluations of all state correctional and social service programs requested by the Department director or mandated by the legislature.
As an NCCD staff member, Dennis has served as the research director for evaluation, case classification and planning studies in more than 20 states. He has developed risk-based case management systems for approximately 30 different agencies including adult and juvenile corrections, as well as child welfare. Recent risk classification studies include the Georgia Juvenile Detention Study, the Oregon Department of Corrections risk assessment study; the Oregon Department of Corrections supervision study; Rhode Island Department of Children Youth and Families Child Juvenile Risk Assessment study; Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections Risk Assessment study; the Nebraska Parole Risk Assessment study; and the Nevada Parole Risk Assessment study. In addition, he has been research director of several major evaluation national studies including the Florida Community Control Program, the Casey Foundation’s juvenile detention reform initiative, and the National Council of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Welfare Risk Assessment study.
He also has significant prior experience in the design and conduct of workload studies for both corrections and child welfare agencies. In the last five years he has served as research director of probation and parole workload studies for the states of Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Michigan (juvenile probation and parole); South Dakota, Nevada, and Kentucy (adult probation and parole); plus California, Oklahoma, Michigan, and Georgia (child welfare). He has BA and MA degrees from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Rick Wiebush
Rick Wiebush is a Senior Program Specialist with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. He has worked with NCCD since 1990. Mr Wiebush specializes in helping local and state agencies design and implement Structured Decision Making® (SDM) systems. SDM® includes research-based risk assessment tools, needs assessments, detention assessment instruments; dispositional guidelines and reassessments of risk and needs. Rick also provides technical assistance and training on the development of graduated sanctions systems. He is currently working with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges delivering training and TA on graduated sanctions to ten sites across the country. As part of that project, he served as the editor of the recently completed "Planning Guide for Graduated Sanctions."
He has conducted several process and outcome evaluations in juvenile justice. These have included an OJJDP-funded national study of the system’s response to juvenile sex offenders, studies of intensive probation and electronic monitoring in Ohio, and the OJJDP-funded national evaluation of the Intensive Aftercare Program (IAP) for high risk parolees.
Mr. Wiebush has written extensively on the subjects of: 1) risk classification and SDM; 2) the design and implementation of transition and aftercare programming; and, 3) the design and implementation of intensive probation programs that serve as alternatives to incarceration for serious and chronic juvenile offenders.
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Angela Wolf, Ph.D.
Angie is a Senior Researcher at NCCD. Her areas of research interests include intimate partner violence, children of battered women, and interventions for delinquent youth. Currently, she is the project manager for the evaluation of ten demonstration sites for interventions with children of incarcerated parents on behalf of National institute of Corrections and also manages the national evaluation of Parents Anonymous, Inc. Dr. Wolf holds Masters and a Doctoral degree in Community Psychology from Michigan State University and received her Bachelors degree from the Texas A&M University.
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