This former Google manager wants to solve mass incarceration using big data
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This passion would eventually lead her to study a combination of computer and cognitive sciences at Stanford University,"To drive behavioral change at scale," she says. After university, she spent six months volunteering at a gang diversion program in Brazil, but eventually, like many other Stanford graduates, ended up at Google working as a product manager."Google always emphasized assuming good intent and trusting generalists with a lot of responsibility," Jacoby says.
In 2018, Jacoby officially quit her job at Google and established Recidiviz as a nonprofit, convincing developers from Apple, Dropbox, and Facebook to join her."People with technical skills want to work on problems that matter," she said. Her team echoes these sentiments by underlining how Recidiviz marries data analytics with social good. Of her transition from
However, not everybody is convinced of Recidiviz's reformative potential. According to Richie Reseda, a founder of the prison reform organization Success Stories, Recidiviz's approach of reforming Department of Corrections data mainframes is prioritizing the wrong people."We're not trying to build more efficient systems of incarceration and supervision. If it doesn't change the nature of the agency, it's completely detached," Reseda says.
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