Case Studies

These are not success stories in the marketing sense. They are accounts of specific partnerships — what we built, what changed, and why the model matters.

• BioCritical Studies Lab: Designing for Independence

  BioCritical Studies Lab (Grace Sosa, Terence Keel)

  A 2021–2024 partnership building national-scale analysis of deaths in custody, explicitly structured so the lab could sustain the work without ongoing staff dependence.

  • Integrated datasets on deaths in custody at national scale
  • Statistical analyses and national-scale visualizations

• Carceral Ecologies: From Support to Research Infrastructure

  Carceral Ecologies (Nicholas Shapiro, Institute for Society and Genetics)

  A multi-year partnership that reduced a key data pipeline from 318 minutes to 2 minutes, contributed to a $5M follow-on grant, and drew national media attention.

  • Reduced key processing pipeline from 318 minutes to 2 minutes
  • Contributed pilot data behind a $5M follow-on grant