On Our Watch Podcast Series

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Summary

On Our Watch is an investigative reporting podcast produced by KQED. Special thanks to editorial consultants Rahsaan Thomas of Ear Hustle, Sandhya Dirks of NPR and KQED’s April Dembosky.

David Barstow, Chair of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, provided support and guidance. Graduate students Kathleen Quinn, Laura Fitzgerald, Cayla Mihalovich, Julietta Bisharyan, William Jenkins, Elizabeth Santos, Armon Owlia, Vera Watt, and Junyao Yang provided research. Jeremy Rue, Associate Professor of Practice at UC Berkeley Journalism and Amanda Glazer, PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley Statistics did our data analysis. Funding for On Our Watch is provided in part by Arnold Ventures and the California Endowment. Additional support for student researchers was provided by the Knight Foundation.

The case files covered in the series were obtained as part of the California Reporting Project, a collaboration of 40 newsrooms formed in late 2018 to investigate misconduct and serious use of force unsealed by a new state law.

https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/onourwatch

Author: Shenique S. Davis

Shenique S. Davis (née Thomas), Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) Borough of Manhattan Community College. Prior to joining CUNY, she served as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Council of State Governments Justice Center where she managed projects centered on the improved application of the risk and needs framework in corrections and developed training curricula and resources to support a more informed approach of reentry strategies, specifically for adults with sexual offense convictions. Her research interests concentrate on the social consequences of mass incarceration, with a particular focus on race/ethnicity, race-related stress, and the family. Shenique has taught courses for the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium (NJ-STEP) and previously worked as a research assistant professor at the Rutgers University Evidence-Based Institute for Justice Policy Research. Shenique has co-authored scholarly articles on the social implications of mass imprisonment, most recently presenting her research at the University of Oxford. Shenique received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice and earned her BA in Psychology from Hampton University.

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