Melissa Labriola is associate research department director, Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Department, and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. Labriola is currently leading several projects studying police and prosecutor-led diversion, including a RCT of prosecutor-led pretrial diversion in San Francisco, CA; an evaluation of early diversion programs in New York City; multi-site evaluation of deflection sites nationally and an evaluation of LA-DOOR. She is currently working on a NIJ-funded project to inventory and assess the impacts of anti-violence strategies in two research sites; an evaluation of NYPD Neigborhood Policing; and a formative evaluation of a family court program. She has over 17 years of experience directing a number of projects related to court responses to intimate partner violence; specialized courts, including drug courts and domestic violence courts; human trafficking, indigent defense, and prosecutor- and police-led diversion. Labriola received her Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, her M.A. in sociology from The George Washington University and her B.A. in social relations from James Madison College, Michigan State University.
Ph.D. in sociology, City College of New York; M.A. in sociology, George Washington University; B.A. in social relations, Michigan State University
