Roseanna Ander

Roseanna Ander serves as the founding executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, which was launched in the spring of 2008 in partnership with the City of Chicago. In the years following, she was appointed to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Research Advisory Committee and the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission, and was named co-chair of Chicago Mayor-Elect Rahm Emanuel's Public Safety Transition Committee. Before joining the Crime Lab, Ander oversaw the Joyce Foundation’s gun violence program and served as the developer and lead program officer for the Foundation’s grantmaking on early childhood education. Prior to joining Joyce, she was a Soros Justice Fellow with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, where she helped develop and implement the nation's first child safety gun regulations. Ander has also worked for the Harvard Injury Control Center, the Harvard Center for Children’s Health, and the Harvard Project on Schooling and Children. She holds a BA from Boston University and an MA from the Harvard School of Public Health.