Ben Struhl
Executive Director, Crime And Justice Policy Lab at University of Pennsylvania
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Struhl is an experienced public policy leader who directs Penn's Crime and Justice Policy Lab, running multi-city and multinational initiatives to reduce gun violence and reimagine community safety. Over the past decade he has designed, fundraised for, and managed large-scale, evidence-driven programs—from a USAID-funded Caribbean violence-prevention effort to Baltimore’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which coincided with a ~30% drop in shootings and homicides in its initial 18 months. He combines rigorous research design and evaluation with hands-on policy implementation, partnering with city, state, and federal governments and major funders to translate findings into practice. Previously he built and led crime-and-violence policy work at J-PAL North America and launched the Center on Crime and Community Resilience at Northeastern, demonstrating an unusual mix of laboratory-style impact evaluation and pragmatic program delivery. Ben holds an MPP from Georgetown and a BA in Writing from Brown, and he regularly shapes public conversation on criminal justice through testimony, trainings, and media engagement. Based in Boston, he blends academic rigor with political and operational experience to drive measurable reductions in community violence.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Public Policy, MA, Public Policy at Georgetown UniversityBA, Literary Arts, BA, Literary Arts at Brown University
Github Skills (20)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BenStruhl/SecretPrint
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Xeeben/InsightExporter
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 28 days
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