• Analyzed public defender systems’ internal documents to prepare data visualizations and qualitative reports on the positive impacts of public defender offices and managed assigned counsel programs in comparison to ad-hoc counsel programs.• Collaborated with a team of 10+ to clean, qualitatively code, and memo interview transcripts for analysis of tangible impacts stemming from Hurrell-Harring indigent defense funding in New York.• Wrote reports on prior criminal justice literature focusing on the downstream case impacts of counsel at first appearance.