Our Team
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Karen Gennette, Esq., has spent 24 years working to improve community safety outcomes at the local and state levels as a project manager, community developer, and executive. Prior to being named Executive Director of Crime Research Group in 2014, she served for ten years in the Vermont Judiciary developing evidence-based alternatives to the traditional criminal justice system, including oversight of the treatment courts, and through collaboration with justice partners provided training opportunities and program evaluation. During her tenure with Judiciary she also facilitated the Tri-Branch Task Force, a group of high-level policy executives working to create an evidenced-based criminal justice system. Karen participated in the clerkship program in Vermont reading the law to become a lawyer in 1994.
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Robin Joy, J.D., Ph.D., joined the Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) in 2005 and has been, since 2014, the Director of Research for Crime Research Group. She is responsible for all aspects of research and evaluation for CRG including research design, program evaluation, development of innovative methods to effectively merge and analyze records data, as well as the development of data sets and analytical processes. Dr. Joy earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Northeastern University. She started her career as a public defender in California. She returned to Boston and handled Criminal Justice Act (CJA) appeals for the First Circuit as well as state appellate work for the Committee for Public Counsel Services.
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Megan arrived at CRG from academia through Indiana University as a doctoral student and qualitative researcher focused primarily on restorative justice, victimology, and racial inequality in the criminal justice system, as well as expertise in white-collar and corporate environmental crimes. Megan earned her BA and MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of South Carolina where she developed her passion for the empirical analysis of crime systems, particularly through the lens of restorative justice and accountability.
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Chris brings twenty years of public sector experience to CRG, with particular focus on the development of public safety policy. As a five-term mayor of the City of Rutland, he helped lead the Rutland community’s opiate response strategy, Project Vision, a nationally recognized initiative that has been used as a template in Vermont’s statewide opiate response. His experiences provide a varied and well-rounded practitioner’s perspective in the areas of criminal justice reform and data-driven crime response focusing on outcomes measured through definable metrics.
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