Holly Busby has a diverse career in the criminal justice and social service system spanning more than 27 years. Holly currently serves as the Chief of the Community Services Division for the National Institute of Corrections in Washington, D.C. NIC is a leader in the field of criminal justice, providing cutting edge training, technical assistance and information services to federal, state, and local corrections agencies as well as public policymakers. In her current role, she leads the division which focuses on pretrial, probation, parole and reentry. Holly along with her exceptional team of Correctional Program Specialists work together to bring innovative projects to enhance correctional practice throughout the country. Some of these initiatives include: Evidence Based Decision Making, Pretrial Justice and Front End Interventions, Parole Structured Decision Making Framework, Dosage Probation, Justice Involved Women and Gender-Responsive programs, Post-Conviction Victim Services, Offender Workforce Development, Correctional Industries, Transition from Jails to Community and Specialized Housing Units for Justice Involved Veterans.

Ruby Qazilbash is the Associate Deputy Director for Justice Systems Policy at the Bureau of Justice Assistance within the U.S. Department of Justice. For the past eight years Ruby has directed policy and programs to support the criminal justice field to develop community-based alternatives for people with substance use and mental health disorders, and to improve programming, conditions of confinement, and sexual safety in the nation’s jails and prisons. At the Department of Justice Ruby and her team implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the Second Chance Act and helped fund, launch, and sustain the Stepping Up Initiative to reduce the prevalence of people with serious mental illness in the nation’s jails. Ruby also oversees the Justice Reinvestment Initiative which uses data to identify and address drivers of crime and state corrections costs, shifting state resources to more effective uses of criminal justice dollars to produce more public safety for the same cost.

Ruby has been with DOJ for 15 years, with previous experience at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Arlington County, Virginia; and the New York City Mayor’s Office on Criminal Justice.

Dr. Angela Moore serves as the Director of the Justice Systems Research Division (JSRD) at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE). In that position she oversees NIJ’s social and behavioral science research on policing, courts, corrections, reentry, drugs and crime, violence against women, and tribal crime and justice.

Danielle Kaeble has been a statistician in the Corrections Unit at the U.S. Departments of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) since 2014. Her work is focused on corrections collections including the Annual Surveys of Probation and Parole and the National Corrections Reporting Program. Prior to coming to BJS, Danielle was a statistician at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She received her M.S. in Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in Washington, DC and her B.A. in Economics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO.

Dr. Mariel Alper has been a statistician in the Recidivism and Corrections Units at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) since 2016. Her work is focused on measuring recidivism using RAP sheet and administrative data and on corrections collections on prisoners and community corrections. Prior to coming to BJS, she was a Senior Research Associate at The Pew Charitable Trusts and a Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School. She received her PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.