Mary S. Fowler
PhD
CEO
Mary Santi Fowler is a professor of Mathematics at Worcester State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from New York University (1983) and a PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University (1989).
Over the past six years, she has pursued racial/human equity through her work as an expert witness in nine cases where Motions to Suppress Evidence were brought based on Lora challenges http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/451/451mass425.html . A Lora challenge asserts that the stop was part of racial profiling in policing and that the decision to stop the defendant was based on the defendant’s race.
Additional cases she has worked on include motions to suppress evidence based on selective prosecution, asserting that female defendants were more likely to be charged with “sex for fee” crimes than involved males.
For the past ten years, she has worked for GEAR UP Massachusetts, Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, State Grant to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. https://www.mass.edu/gearup/GEAR-UP The goal of Gear Up is to increase college opportunities to low income high school students. Together with Eileen Perez Ed.D., she developed Math Plus, a mathematics program which supports low-income GEAR UP high school students to increase their mathematics skills and become college ready. She serves as the Quantitative Evaluator for GEAR UP.
Additional racial/human equity work includes:
Oliver, J., Conroy T.E., & Fowler, M. (2019). Affordable housing in Worcester, part 1: A preliminary view of the American community survey and US Census data, Urban Action Institute. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPdyiFCbI5w9gsvKZqSWVNn5bo5rn77c/view
Saltsman, A., Fowler, M., Dogali, M., Johnston, G., & Wetherell, O. (2019). Hunger and homelessness at Worcester State University, Urban Action Institute. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPdyiFCbI5w9gsvKZqSWVNn5bo5rn77c/view
Joseph B. (“Jay”) Kadane
PhD
Partner
Joseph B. ("Jay") Kadane is an emeritus professor of statistics and social sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. His bachelor's degree is from Harvard in Mathematics (1962) and his Ph.D is from Stanford in 1966. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Statistical Institute. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His most socially significant legal work is his testimony in the case of State of New Jersey vs. Soto et.al. The data showed that the New Jersey State Police were stopping cars driven by black people at highly disproportionate rates. This case led to a consent decree with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Some references:
New Jersey v. Soto et.al. (324 N.J.Super. 66, 734 A.2d 350 (Law Div. 1996)
Kadane, J.B. and Terrin,N. (1997) Missing Data in the forensic context, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 160, 351-357
Kadane, J.B. and Lamberth, J. (2009) Are blacks egregious speeding violators at extraordinary rates in New Jersey ?, Law, Probability and Risk, 8,139-152
He has also been active in assuring that trial venires are an adequate cross-section of the community. Some publications include:
Kairys, D., Kadane, J.B. and Lehoczky,J. (1977), Jury Representativeness: A mandate for multiple source lists, California Law Review, 65, 776-827
Kadane, J.B. (2002) Anatomy of a Jury Challenge, Chance, 15, 10-13
Chernoff,N.W. and Kadane, J.B. (2013) The 16 things every defense attorney should know about fair cross-section challenges, The Champion, 37 (#10), 14-35
His cv is available at www.stat.cmu.edu/~kadane/
John D. Holbrook
,
MS
Geographical Information Systems Analyst
John holds a bachelor’s degree in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from The University of Maine, Orno (2007) and a master’s degree in Geo-Information Science from Salem State University (2018). He has been utilizing and teaching geospatial analysis for several years. He really likes maps.
Kevin P. Fowler
PhD
Software Architect
Kevin P. Fowler is a software engineer for Embue, an apartment Building Intelligence Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1982) and a PhD in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University (1988).
He has more than 20 years’ experience as a software engineer, designing, developing, testing and managing successful projects and solutions across a broad range of applications and technologies.
He oversees the software architecture, development and data wrangling for Racial Equity Partners.