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RONALD CHATTERS, III
88 College Road West • Princeton, NJ 08544 • Tel. (917) 532-1611 •
EDUCATION:
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton, NJ
Master in Public Affairs (M.P.A) – Domestic Policy – expected June 2008
Columbia University, Columbia College, New York, NY
B.A. Economics-Political Science, May 2004
AWARDS & HONORS:
Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellowship, Princeton University, 2007
Third Millennium Foundation Human Rights Fellowship, Columbia University, 2004-2005
Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Fellowship, Columbia University, 2004
University of California Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Fellowship, UC-Berkeley, 2003
Council for Legal Education Opportunity Sophomore Scholar, Northern Illinois College of Law, 2002
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate, Trenton, NJ In progress
Intern
· Engage a variety of child welfare issues such as juvenile justice, mental health and developmental disability services at New Jersey’s institutional settings, institutional abuse investigations, child fatality investigations and state health care policy.
Prison Law Office, San Quentin, CA
Litigation Assistant 2005-2006
· Monitored California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) compliance with a court order to provide reasonable accommodations to prisoners and parolees with disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (Armstrong v. Wilson, Davis, Schwarzenegger).
· Traveled to various prisons throughout CA to interview disabled prisoners to ensure that they were receiving adequate accommodations given their disabilities. Also toured facilities to ensure their accessibility and compliance with the court injunction.
· Conducted timeliness reviews of CDCR’s processing of 1824s (the administrative appeals prisoners with disabilities submit to request fair treatment or to receive equal access to prison services or programs).
Columbia University, New York, NY
Third Millennium Foundation (TMF) Human Rights Fellow 2004-2005
Yearlong fellowship designed to enable three graduating students interested in pursuing a career in human rights with the opportunity to gain practical work experience through internships with human rights NGOs. Each fellow conducts two six-month internships: one in a developing country and the other in an industrialized nation. Focus: Prisoners’ Rights and Prison Reform.
Placement I: Correctional Association of New York, New York, NY
· Engaged in a research and advocacy project focused on reducing the disproportionate confinement of youth of color in secure juvenile detention in the State of New York.
· Mobilized and staffed a group of parents who have children in custody with the purpose of educating them about the system, their rights as parents, and how they may advocate for juvenile detention reform.
· Toured New York prisons and court pens, and interviewed prisoners to report on conditions of confinement to New York Department of Correctional Services and state policymakers.
Placement II: United Nation’s Latin American Institute on Crime Prevention (ILANUD), São Paulo, Brazil
· With the Executive Director, co-designed proposal for a national prison observatory, which would act as a clearing house of research on best practices to aid the Brazilian government in improving the quality and effectiveness of its adult prison system.
Columbia University, New York, NY
Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Fellow 2004
· Conducted research analyzing the economic and social costs of mass incarceration and making recommendations for more cost efficient and effective alternatives to deter crime and punish criminals.
Rikers Island, New York, NY
Co-Facilitator, Course “Youth Voices on the Lockdown” Spring 2004
· Designed and facilitated workshops that explored young peoples’ voices and visions of justice at Island Academy, the high school for incarcerated young men (ages 16-18) in jail on Rikers Island. Course used the arts as a lens through which the youth could both learn from historical instances of cultural resistance and explore their own visions of social and criminal justice.
Africana Criminal Justice Project, New York, NY
Research Volunteer Sept. 2003- Feb. 2004
· Conducted web-research and literature review of civics pedagogies to assist in creating a civics curriculum for New York prisoners to inform them of their voting rights.
Women’s Prison Association, Brooklyn, NY
Research & Advocacy Intern Fall 2003
· Edited focus sheets (position papers); conceptualized “Arrest & Sentencing” focus sheet. Entered & analyzed data in SPSS. Cataloged research library.
LEADERSHIP & VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:
English Instructor, Princeton Project Inside, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, In progress
Teaching Fellow, Princeton University Preparatory Program, Trenton High School, In progress
Co-Chair, Students and Alumni of Color Symposium, Princeton University, 2006
Chair, Malcolm X Lounge Restoration Committee, Columbia University, 2003-2004
President, Opportunity Programs & Undergraduate Services’ Student Council, Columbia University, 2002-2003
TRAVEL: Six months in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Three months in Madrid, Spain.
LANGUAGES: Proficient Spanish, basic Portuguese.
COMPUTER SKILLS: Extensive use of Windows applications such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), familiar with Stata.
COURSES TAKEN AT THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL
FALL 2006:
The Politics of Public Policy—Profs. Robert Hutchings, Thomas Romer, Grigore Pop-Eleches
Quantitative Analysis (advanced)—Prof. Mark Watson
Microeconomic Analysis—Prof. Cecile Rouse
Domestic Politics—Prof. Arnold Douglas
SPRING 2007:
Psychology for Policy Analysis and Implementation—Profs. J. Darley, E. Pronin, A. Todorov
Macroeconomic Analysis—Prof. E. Rossi-Hansberg
Program & Policy Evaluation—Prof. D. Peikes, A. Rangarajan, C. Trenholm
Domestic Work-study—New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate