Jake Horowitz

Jake Horowitz leads Pew’s public safety performance project, which advances data-driven, fiscally sound policies and practices in the adult and juvenile justice systems that protect public safety, ensure accountability, and control corrections costs. In this role, he oversees the project’s research and policy portfolios, including technical assistance to states, policy analysis and development, and public and policymaker education on justice issues.

Before joining Pew, Horowitz was a social science analyst with the U.S. Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice. He was also a legislative fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives and a counselor and teacher with Eckerd Youth Alternatives.

Horowitz earned a bachelor’s degree from Reed College and a master’s from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.