Mia Bird

Mia Bird is a Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on criminal justice reform and the intersections of criminal justice, health, and social safety net policies. Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty, she spent seven years at the Public Policy Institute of California as a research fellow. At PPIC she founded and directed the creation of a criminal justice data system that standardized and integrated individual-level data from 12 county justice systems, representing 60 percent of the state population, with data from state-level correctional and justice systems. These data allowed for the monitoring and evaluation of the effects of a wave of criminal justice reforms in California. In several counties, she also linked these data to health insurance enrollment, allowing for research on the effects of the Affordable Care Act on recidivism outcomes for those involved with the criminal justice system. Her work has been funded by Arnold Ventures, The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, The National Institute of Justice, and The Russell Sage Foundation. Bird has been published in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Criminology and Public Policy, and the Criminal Justice Policy Review. She consults widely with research centers and organizations working on criminal justice issues in California. Bird holds a PhD in public policy, an MA in demography, and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to her graduate studies, Bird worked as a research associate with the Institute for Women's Policy Research and American Institutes for Research, as well as in the office of the late Senator Ted Kennedy

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Areas of Expertise

• Criminal Justice
• Demography
• Discrimination
• Gender
• Poverty & Inequality
• Program Evaluation
• Criminal Justice Policy
• Economic Demography
• Health and Human Services Policy
• Policy and Program Evaluation

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Last updated on 04/24/2024