Throughout her career, Dr. Gipsy Escobar has worked in the private, public, academia, and nonprofit sectors; all of which have taught her many important lessons she applies to her work in Product today. As Measure for Justice’s VP of Product and Design, she’s responsible for understanding the data needs of criminal justice agencies around three areas: quality, transparency, and community engagement. She works cross-functionally with engineers, researchers, designers, product professionals, and engagement specialists to translate these needs into solutions that improve the quality and use of data routinely collected by the system. She also provides subject matter expertise as a criminologist and researcher to ensure that the solutions MFJ develops are responsive to the complex needs of criminal justice stakeholders and follow best data practices.

As MFJ’s Director of Research and Analytics (2015-2018), Dr. Escobar incubated MFJ’s Research Team, and worked with national experts to design and validate a system of performance measurement for local criminal justice, and to develop a robust methodology to standardize the management of criminal justice data from varied sources across jurisdictions in the United States.

Dr. Escobar holds a PhD in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York Graduate Center and John Jay College.