Felix Owusu is a doctoral candidate in public policy at Harvard University, an Affiliate at the Harvard Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, and a Fellow at the Lab @ DC. He studies the application of law and bureaucratic processes in law enforcement agencies and their impacts across race and class.

Felix has recently served as a Data Scientist in the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Policy Program. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Felix was involved in policy research at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and UC Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Felix holds a BA in economics and political science from Williams College and an MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Project: Diversion, Non-prosecution, and Public Safety in Suffolk County, MA