SPOTLITE Team
SPOTLITE Team
Principal Investigators
Cline Center Director
Cline Center Research Scientist & Assistant Director of Research
Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology
Research Scientist and Assistant Director of Strategic Research Initiatives
Research Staff Leadership Team
Cline Center Senior Research Manager
Cline Center Senior Research Coordinator
Cline Center Software Engineer
External Advisory Committee
Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU of Illinois
Chief of the Council Bluffs (IA) Police Department, Former First Deputy Director of the Illinois State Police
Director of the Illinois Justice Project
Professor of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School
Senior Social Policy Executive, Former Executive Director of the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission
Interim Executive Director, American Society of Evidence-Based Policing
Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Director of Criminal Justice Policy, Georgia State University
Student Research Team (AY2022-23 and AY2023-24)
*And other student researchers for whom we have not yet received permission to identify.
- Andrea Miller (Principal Investigators Team)
- Michael Schlosser (Principal Investigators Team)
- Dan Shalmon (Research Staff Leadership Team)
- Travis Dixon (Debiasing Assessment and Accountability Committee)
- Jennifer Hunt (Debiasing Assessment and Accountability Committee)
- Carla Hunter (Debiasing Assessment and Accountability Committee)
- Isabel Molina-Guzmán (Debiasing Assessment and Accountability Committee)
- Mara Ostfeld (Debiasing Assessment and Accountability Committee)
- Cara Wong (Debiasing Assessment and Accountability Committee)
- Caitlyn Flaherty (Student Research Team)
- Lauren Gerdes (Student Research Team)
- Salem Isaf (Student Research Team)
- Jing Li (Student Research Team)
- Isa Medina (Student Research Team)
- Sidhartha Satapathy (Student Research Team)
*And other researchers for whom we have not yet received permission to identify.
SPOTLITE is a project of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, which is funded by a combination of campus resources and private gifts. Additional support for sustaining the SPOTLITE project has come from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor’s Research Program, from the Joyce Foundation, from Microsoft, from the Center for Social & Behavioral Science, from the Nerad Student Research Fund, from the David F. Linowes Faculty Fellows Fund, from Paul O'Connor and Karin Dommermuth O'Connor, from the David C. Colby Endowment Fund, and from numerous private donors supporting the Cline Center’s mission.
The SPOTLITE team thanks Fatal Encounters and the Gun Violence Archive for generously sharing their data in support of the SPOTLITE project.
