Angela Browne is a specialist in policy research and government relations in Vera’s Washington DC Office. Previously she worked for RTI International as a senior research scientist and lead of the DC Policy Initiative, acting as research and policy liaison to the Department of Justice and other federal and local agencies on violence and youth violence. Before coming to Washington, she was associate director of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, where she led the research program, conducted analyses of longitudinal data on girls from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, and led collaborations with the City of Boston and the Mayor’s Office on youth violence. She also served on the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee.

Dr. Browne is nationally and internationally known for her research on violence exposure and perpetration, long-term effects of victimization, precursors to offending and incarceration, national homicide and detention trends, and implications of trauma histories for policies and programs. Since 1988, she has consulted with maximum-security prisons, juvenile justice agencies, and city and state agencies. Her current work focuses on partnerships with state's departments of corrections to reduce the number of prisoners held in segregation, develop procedures for safe transition to other levels of security, and improve conditions for those who remain in segregation; characteristics of large U.S. cities from which youth homicide can rapidly accelerate; and consultation on trauma histories and their implications.