Our Team

Jason Ziedenberg, Director of Research and Publications, ensures that everything DCJL advocates for is supported by reliable evidence and can be used to drive advocacy, communications, organizing, and can build the organization’s scope and reach. He is working with the DCJL team to take the volumes of research that support the need to expand safety solutions in DC to turn them into products that frame information in a way that is accessible to a broad audience.

Jason has lived and worked to advance safety solutions in Washington DC for close to three decades. He has served on the staff of some of the leading organizations seeking to increase reliance on the most effective safety strategies, such as the Alliance for Safety and Justice and its flagship project, Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, the Justice Policy Institute, the DC Department of Youth Rehabilitative Services, and the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice.  Jason led teams to develop research products that were used to reinvest hundreds of millions of dollars from prisons and jails to safety programs, change sentencing laws that drive racial disparities, help millions of individuals expunge and seal their old criminal records, and articulate a vision for addressing the needs of underserved crime victims.  

Jason has been commissioned to lead research projects for the National Center for Victims of Crime, the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, the NAACP, the Campaign for Youth Justice, the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and National Institute of Corrections, and the Public Welfare Foundation.

Jason Ziedenberg has a Masters in Science in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and he has a Bachelor of  Arts from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.  He is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.