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Amanda Geller is an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University; she received her Ph.D. in Social Policy Analysis from the Columbia University School of Social Work in May 2007. Her research interests include crime, urban poverty, and administration of justice issues such as capital punishment, policing, and incarceration. She has also worked extensively with the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study, investigating the effects of parental incarceration on family resources and child wellbeing. Before coming to Columbia, Dr. Geller spent three years as an Associate Operations Research Analyst at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA.