Meredith Sadin

Dr. Meredith Sadin is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy. She is a trained political scientist (Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2014) and her work focuses on political access, community engagement, and inequality, both broadly and within the criminal legal system.

Dr. Sadin has extensive experience collaborating with practitioners, policymakers, and government agencies on projects designed to evaluate, implement, scale, and improve public policies and programs as well as access to the democratic process. She aims to utilize Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approaches in her research – conducting rigorous and systematic research with the collaboration of those directly impacted by the issue being studied. 

Her work has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Sadin has published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Punishment & Society, Journal of Urban Design, and cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and New Republic. She consults widely on issues related to criminal justice, reentry, political mobilization, and voter turnout.

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About

Areas of Expertise

• Criminal Justice
• Elections
• Political Psychology
• Program Evaluation
• Stereotyping, Prejudice & Discrimination
• Politics
• Democracy Policy
• Qualitative Methods
• Community-Based Participatory Research
• Voter Turnout

Curriculum Vitae

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Research

Research Affiliations

• The People Lab: Faculty Affiliate

Last updated on 03/18/2024