Aimee joined JMI in 2010 and her experience includes substantial work in the areas of research, evaluation, process mapping, and criminal justice system coordination. She has provided technical assistance and served crucial analytical and managerial roles in numerous JMI projects, including site coordination for multiple counties in the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, caseflow management for multiple courts around the country, and a multi-site case study of local criminal justice systems across the United States, among others. Aimee has served as a member of the project team on a number of research and evaluation projects including an evaluation of the Early Representation Program for the Office of the Public Defender in Contra Costa, California; an evaluation of the Client Choice program in Comal County, Texas; a case-weighting study of the Florida Public Defender; and a study on the expansion of the Committee for Public Counsel Services Representation in Massachusetts. Aimee co-leads JMI’s National Network of Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils (NNCJCC), a formal network of representatives from local criminal justice coordinating councils to provide a peer-to-peer learning forum and build capacity for similar councils around the country. She provides technical assistance and conducts research on best practices in coordinating system policies and practices and on the role of coordinating councils, their composition and structure, data capacity, and a variety of best practices. Prior to joining JMI, Aimee was a Research Associate at The Spangenberg Project, where she conducted research on the right to counsel and indigent defense delivery systems and provided technical assistance and program evaluation for indigent defense systems nationwide. Aimee has a Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.