Andrea M. Headley
Andrea M. Headley is a public management and criminal justice scholar whose research investigates the relationship between local government agencies and the community. Her research has focused within the context of policing to understand how organizational, managerial, and individual level factors affect public service delivery and outcomes. Further, her work has explored the causes and consequences of outcome disparities and inequities in policing. Her prior research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics and she has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, honors, and fellowships. She has worked with various public service organizations to conduct both applied and engaged research on issues pertaining to police-community relations. She uses these experiences to help inform her teaching and further her scholarship. Formerly, she was an Assistant Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, a Faculty Member in the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center in the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State, and a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Florida International University and B.S.Ed. from the University of Miami.