Anya McGlaughlin

Anya McGlaughlin is a research assistant with the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy (IMRP) and is currently in her first year of her master’s in public policy. During her time as an undergraduate, she received her associate’s degree in general studies at Harrisburg Area Community College and finished her bachelor’s degree at Arcadia University, studying criminology and criminal justice.

Her interest in working on criminal justice reform and social justice stems from witnessing the battle for preserving and obtaining civil rights during 2020 through the Black Lives Matter movement and all the other civil rights movements that emerged from that. For her senior capstone, she wrote her thesis on the impacts of current and past prison policies on incarcerated transgender women. Anya plans on pursuing her research on the impacts public policy has on different marginalized groups and changes that can be made.

The project she is assisting with is analyzing data and conducting research to identify policing disparities in Connecticut’s juvenile justice system. This will be done by using the data dashboard provided by Connecticut’s Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee (JJPOC).