Sheena Yoon

I am a Justice Evaluation and Analysis Researcher at the Utah Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice under the Governor's Office and a Ph.D. candidate in Economics. Most recently, I was a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Institute of Justice (DOJ) as a federal contractor and a Research Fellow at the Economic Evaluation Unit. Before starting my PhD, I was a Junior Economist at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, and an Information Designer at The World Bank. I received my MA in Economics from American University in D.C. with a concentration in feminist economics. 

My research interests and public policy work include labor economics and relations, race and gender analysis (stratification economics), justice & equity, spatial methodologies, mapping & data visualization, political economy, and social protection. Currently, I focus on geospatial analysis of social and racial disparities of the correctional population in non-metropolitan geographies.