Biography:Clementine Jacoby
Clementine Jacoby | |
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| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Employer | Google Recidiviz |
Clementine Jacoby is an American software engineer and criminal justice reform activist. She is a founder and executive director at Recidiviz. She was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021 and named as a TED fellow in 2022.
Early life and education
Jacoby was a student at Stanford University, where she studied symbolic systems.[1] She spent one year of her studies in a circus in Brazil, where she taught acrobatics to gang members.[2] This experience prompted her to carefully evaluate the criminal justice system.[2] She worked at OPower, a platform which helped people make better decisions about their energy usage using behavioral economics.[1]
Career
Jacoby joined Google where she worked on augmented mobile games.[2][3] She became increasingly concerned about the high numbers of people imprisoned in the United States.[4][5] In particular, she looked for low-cost solutions to mass incarceration.[6] Of the 2.5 million incarcerated Americans, hundreds of thousands pose no risk to public safety. One in four prison admissions occur not because someone committed a crime but because they violated rules whilst on supervision.[7] However, the data required to free them from prison is often distributed across several departments. Jacoby's work looks to make real-time data available for justice agencies and, ultimately, reduce recidivism.[1]
Jacoby is the Founder and executive director of Recidiviz,[2][8] a nonprofit platform that allows states to collect, clean, standardize and share fragmented data.[7][9] It collects data from prisons, probation and parole. Recidiviz makes use of an algorithm to recommend people for early release, so-called smart decarceration.[2] In the two years following its launch, Recidiviz was responsible for the release of over 40,000 inmates.[4]
As COVID-19 spread through prison populations,[10] North Dakota made use of Recidiviz to identify inmates who were eligible for release. In one month, prison populations in North Dakota were reduced by 25%.[11] Jacoby partnered with the Charles Koch Institute to expand Recidiviz to 15 states.[2]
Awards and honors
- 2020 Fast Company's Most Creative People[12]
- 2021 TIME100 NEXT[4]
- 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30[13]
- 2022 Appointed TED fellow[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Recidiviz | DRK Foundation | Supporting passionate, high impact social enterprises" (in en-US). https://www.drkfoundation.org/organization/recidiviz/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Recidiviz uses open-source data to create a fairer criminal-justice system" (in en-US). 2020-12-02. https://charleskochinstitute.org/stories/recidiviz-uses-open-source-data-to-create-a-fairer-criminal-justice-system/.
- ↑ Glasgow, Abigail. "This former Google manager wants to solve mass incarceration using big data" (in en-US). https://www.businessinsider.com/clementine-jacoby-prison-reform-recidiviz-big-data.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "2021 TIME100 Next: Clementine Jacoby" (in en). Time. 2021-02-17. https://time.com/collection/time100-next-2021/5937721/clementine-jacoby/. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
- ↑ "About | Recidiviz | A Criminal Justice Data Platform". https://www.recidiviz.org/about.
- ↑ Tun, Anita (2021-01-28). "Clementine Jacoby combats recidivism through nonprofit Recidiviz" (in en-US). https://stanforddaily.com/2021/01/27/clementine-jacoby-combats-recidivism-through-nonprofit-recidiviz/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "CICERO SPOTLIGHT | CLEMENTINE JACOBY | RECIDIVIZ" (in en). 2020-04-10. https://medium.com/cicero-news/cicero-spotlight-clementine-jacoby-recidiviz-c353a747c58a.
- ↑ "Our Team | Recidiviz | A Criminal Justice Data Platform.". https://www.recidiviz.org/team.
- ↑ "Data-Driven Criminal Justice Reform" (in en-US). https://standtogether.org/news/data-driven-criminal-justice-reform/.
- ↑ "COVID-19 Model for Incarceration | Recidiviz". https://www.recidiviz.org/covid.
- ↑ "Clementine Jacoby" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/profile/clementine-jacoby/.
- ↑ Peters, Adele (2020-08-04). "This former Google employee is using data to help prisoners get out—and stay out—of the justice system" (in en-US). https://www.fastcompany.com/90525615/most-creative-people-2020-clementine-jacoby.
- ↑ "Forbes 30 Under 30 2021: Social Impact". https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2021/social-impact/.
- ↑ "Meet the 2022 class of TED Fellows | TED Blog" (in en-US). https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-2022-class-of-ted-fellows/.
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