Dr. Sandhya Kajeepeta is a Senior Researcher with LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Her research focuses on the public health consequences of criminalization and incarceration and the impacts of criminal legal responses to violence.
Dr. Kajeepeta was formerly a research associate at the Vera Institute of Justice where she worked on advancing local jail decarceration efforts. Prior to that, she served as the Director of Research and Evaluation at the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence where she led the city’s research agenda for gender-based violence prevention.
Dr. Kajeepeta received her PhD in epidemiology from Columbia University, where she received the Anna C. Gelman Award for Excellence in Epidemiology, the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences Student Award, and a dissertation grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. She also holds an MS in epidemiology from Harvard University, and a BS in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Her research and writing have been featured in the American Journal of Public Health, Lancet Public Health, The Appeal, New York Daily News, and Rolling Stone magazine.
