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Cindy Redcross
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Senior Associate
Health and Barriers to Employment Policy Area
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Redcross is a Senior Research Associate in MDRC’s Health and Barriers to Employment policy area. Her expertise is in random assignment evaluations of programs that serve individuals involved in the criminal justice system. Currently, Redcross is project director for an evaluation of sites replicating the Center for Employment Opportunities’ transitional jobs program for former prisoners. She is also project manager on the U.S. Department of Labor’s multisite Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration, which targets former prisoners and non-custodial parents, and she has a central role in NIJ’s Demonstration Field Experiment: What Works in Reentry Research. Recently, she has served as project manager and research lead for MDRC’s prisoner reentry studies, including the Center for Employment Opportunities evaluation, the multisite Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration, and the Rikers Island Jail Single Stop evaluation. Since joining MDRC in 1996, she has served as task lead on several large-scale random assignment evaluations. Redcross has led or coauthored a number of published reports and journal articles. She began her career as a researcher for the New York State Assembly. She holds an M.S. in Sociology with a focus on Urban Affairs.
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