Krista O'Connell

Krista O’Connell is a Master of Public Policy candidate and research assistant at Georgetown University where she focuses on education and social policy. She previously worked with immigrant youth and on the GradNation campaign to increase the national high school graduation rate.

The Double Jeopardy of Juvenile Detention

Youth who have served time in the juvenile justice system face a double punishment: not only do they serve their sentence, but they are also less likely to graduate from high school or go to college because of that sentence. Each year in the US, approximately 100,000 young people are released from private, state, and […]

Diversifying the Digital Economy is a Civil Rights Issue

Facebook announced that it will hire 1,000 employees to its global ad review team in the next year after it was revealed that Russian operatives purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars of ads in an attempt to influence the 2016 US presidential election. This scandal has clear implications not just for campaign and election laws, […]