Matt Watkins

Matt Watkins is the host and producer of our award-winning New Thinking podcast on criminal legal reform (subscribe here) and the senior media and policy advisor in the Research and Policy department. He has written on everything from racial bias and pretrial risk assessments to a new vision for reentry focused on the social integration due to returning citizens. Matt taught European history at New York University and Adelphi University and spent six years as a radio reporter, editor, and documentary producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal, Toronto, and Iqaluit, Nunavut. Matt has a B.A. from McGill University in Philosophy and History and a Ph.D. in History from NYU.