Executive Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice

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The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn’s distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning. As an employer Penn has been ranked nationally on many occasions with the most recent award from Forbes who named Penn one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2023.

Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play.

The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

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Executive Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice

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Director D, Academic Affairs, Academic Center

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The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is one of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished law schools. The School offers a unique approach, incorporating cross-disciplinary legal education, a distinctly collaborative environment, and an innovative curriculum to enrich student learning. The small and highly interdisciplinary faculty achieves scholarly excellence while emphasizing a shared effort to advance understanding of the law. The result is an intellectual community that bridges traditional boundaries and disciplines within a renowned internal culture of collegiality, making the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School an extraordinarily supportive academic community for all its members.

The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice is a national, interdisciplinary, data-driven research and policy hub that that builds on Penn’s inter-disciplinary excellence to pursue a systems approach to catalyzing long-term structural improvements to the US criminal justice system.

Since its founding in 2013, the Quattrone Center has become an established national thought leader in criminal legal reform, hosting multiple symposia and other events and regularly producing works of rigorous scholarship that have made real-world change throughout the American criminal system. Working with Academic Director and Professor of Law Paul Heaton as well as affiliated faculty from multiple schools across Penn, the Executive Director will organize and promote to a wide array of audiences the Center’s activities, research, and recommendations, as well as manage a growing team of lawyers, researchers, data professionals, and experts in policy and communications.

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