Biography
Kat Albrecht is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University in the Andrew Young School of Public Policy. She received her JD and her PhD from Northwestern University. She is also currently a Judicial Innovation Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where she is working on auditing and redesigning court data structures. Her work focuses on the nexus between computational social science, fear, and the law. Her work has been published in outlets like Nature Human Behavior, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and others. Kat is a principal member of the SCALES Open Knowledge Network, an NSF Convergence Accelerator Project making court records publicly accessible. She is also the North American Director of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, where she teaches computational analytics at Universities across North America. She has been working on active cases and research projects across California for over 5 years focused on felony murder, special circumstance enhancements, and sentence disparity. She has served as an expert for numerous RJA cases.
