Victoria Lawson is a Research Project Director at CUNY ISLG where she manages the Institute's portfolios focused on equitable cities, community supervision, and NYC jails, as well as other projects centered on incarceration, conditions of confinement, and criminal legal system reform. In this role she also participates in strategic planning and development for the Research Department more broadly, and works closely with a wide range of governmental, policy, research, and community partners in New York and other jurisdictions nationwide. Before coming to ISLG, she worked in the Research Department at the Innocence Project, conducted research on contributing causes to and potential remedies for wrongful conviction, and taught undergraduate classes in psychology and research methods at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the Graduate Center of CUNY and an M.A. in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Victoria is a lifelong New Yorker, a proud mother to an elementary schooler, and an avid consumer of fiction and cheese.