Nazgol Ghandnoosh

Nazgol Ghandnoosh is the co-director of research at The Sentencing Project. She conducts and synthesizes research on criminal justice policies, with a focus on racial disparities, extreme sentencing, and the scope of reform efforts. In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, she explained why people serving long sentences for violent crimes should have been included in COVID-era decarceration efforts. Her report, “A Second Look at Injustice," is a comprehensive analysis of a growing, powerful tool to curb mass incarceration: second look policies that enable extreme sentences to be re-evaluated. She regularly presents to academic, practitioner, and general audiences and her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and WNYC’s On the Media. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.