Jess Robinson is Research Data Analyst Associate at Corners: the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science interested in politics, law, and mechanisms of social control. Jess received her BA from the University of Chicago in Sociology and Political Science with a minor in Philosophy, where she completed a thesis on correlates of US state-level probation patterns and their relation to the expanding carceral system. She has previously worked in youth defense and advocacy and on Chicago-based sociological research. In her free time, Jess also enjoys theatre, both making and seeing it.