Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn is the Deputy Director of Philanthropy at Citadel, where she works with Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin on his personal philanthropy and on the firm’s engagement in the communities where Citadel employees live and work. She was previously the Associate Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab, where she worked across a portfolio of research projects in Chicago and New York City in partnership with government agencies and local nonprofits to use data and data science to improve educational outcomes, prevent violence, and reduce the harms of the criminal justice system. Her work included large-scale randomized controlled trials of the Becoming a Man (BAM) program and a high-dosage individualized tutoring model implemented in Chicago and NYC public schools, work on domestic violence, transitional jobs, and police reform, and a multi-city, multi-methods study of underground gun markets. She also helped to lead communications and fundraising efforts for the Labs. Prior to the University of Chicago, Julia worked on gun violence and juvenile justice reform, including research to inform state policy on the economic implications of changing the age of juvenile jurisdiction.