Barbara Boyd, Administrative Coordinator

Barbara Boyd has worked in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of NRC for over 11 years. She currently supports Committee on Law and Justice and the Committee on Population as well as two studies: Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration and the Roundtable on Crime Trends.

Betty Chemers, Senior Program Officer

Betty M. Chemers is a senior project officer at the National Research Council. Previously, she held numerous positions at the U.S. Department of Justice, including director of the evaluation division of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and deputy administrator for discretionary programs at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, where she oversaw its research, demonstration and training, and technical assistance activities. Her nonfederal service includes directing the planning and policy analysis division of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and consulting on strategic planning, finance, and management issues with nonprofit organizations. She has an M.A. in history from Boston University and a B.A. in education/sociology from the University of Maryland.

Arlene F. Lee, Director

Arlene F. Lee is the Board Director for the Committee on Law and Justice. Prior to joining CLAJ Arlene was the Director of Policy at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, where she focused on helping federal and state elected officials develop research-informed policies and funding to improve results for children and families. In this capacity, she oversaw PolicyforResults.org, a leading national resource for results-based policy. Previously she was the Executive Director of the Maryland Governor's Office for Children, where she chaired the Children's Cabinet and was responsible for the cabinet’s fund of 60+ million dollars annually. She has served as the Deputy Director of the Georgetown University Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Director of the Federal Resource Center for Children of Prisoners and Youth Strategies Manager for the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention. Lee is also the author of numerous articles and co-authored The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on Children of Incarcerated Parents. She has a B.A. in Sociology from Washington College and a J.D. from Washington College of Law, American University. As a result of her work, Arlene was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women and has received three Governor’s Citations.

Malay Majmundar, Program Officer

Malay Majmundar is a program officer at the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies. He has worked on studies on federal budget policy, immigration enforcement and statistics, criminal justice, and demography and aging. He has a B.A. in political science from Duke University, a J.D. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago.

Steve Redburn, Scholar

Steve Redburn is a study director for the National Academy of Sciences. In 2010 and 2011, he was project director for the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform. Steve is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and has chaired its standing panel on executive organization and management. In 2010 and 2013, Dr. Redburn was a visiting adjunct and lectured at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, in Adelaide Australia, and elsewhere. He is an adjunct faculty member of the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. He served as a senior executive at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for many years until his retirement from the federal service in 2006. Following his retirement, he worked in 2007 as advisor to the budget director of Kosovo for a USAID development project. For NAS, Dr. Redburn has directed studies of causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the U.S. (current) and of planning and budgeting for immigration enforcement (2010 – 2011). In 2008 – 2009, he was study director for a joint committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration, whose report on options to address the long-term budget challenge, Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, was released in January, 2010. His own scholarship focuses on public administration reform and strategic approaches to policy development. He has authored and edited numerous academic works on budgeting, public management, and a variety of public policy issues. His Ph.D. in political science is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Julie Schuck, Senior Program Associate

Julie Anne Schuck is a senior program associate with the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences and has worked in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education for over 10 years. Much of which has been spent understanding different fields of study and preparing technical reports. She has provided analytical and editorial support for a number of projects and workshops in the areas of STEM education, privacy and terrorism prevention, the science of human-system integration, and criminal justice. Currently, she is part of the staff team supporting the NRC committee on the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration. She has an M.S. in education from Cornell University and a B.S. in engineering physics from the University of California, San Diego.