Ryan Gentzler

Ryan Gentzler

R for justice transparency

Biography

My work aims to build a fairer, more effective legal system by fusing a people-centered approach to justice with the power of data and research. At the Oklahoma Policy Institute, I started Open Justice Oklahoma, a program that collects, analyzes, and communicates data on the state’s courts, jails, and prisons. I’m currently Data Innovations Director at Fair and Just Prosecution, working with reform-minded prosecutors' offices around the country to tell their stories and measure their impact.

I love using R to uncover patterns in messy administrative data, revealing things that challenge our ideas about how the world works.

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Education

  • Master of Public Administration, 2015

    University of Oklahoma

  • BA in Institutions & Policy, 2009

    William Jewell College

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Data Innovations Director

Fair and Just Prosecution

Nov 2022 – Present
Support the data and research activities of reform-minded elected prosecutors across the country
 
 
 
 
 

Research Director

Oklahoma Policy Institute

Jan 2021 – Nov 2022 Oklahoma
Oversee the creation of rigorous reproducible research reports and dashboards in support of OK Policy’s policy and programmatic goals
 
 
 
 
 

Director, Open Justice Oklahoma

Oklahoma Policy Institute

Jul 2018 – Dec 2020 Oklahoma
Founded program based on work as Policy Analyst to produce groundbreaking research by collecting and analyzing court and jail data
 
 
 
 
 

Criminal Justice Policy Analyst

Oklahoma Policy Institute

Jan 2016 – Jun 2018 Oklahoma
Researched criminal justice policy, tracked legislation, published blog posts and reports

Recent Posts

Going solar in Oklahoma

Becoming a parent has changed me in a lot of ways, one of which has been to turn my tendency to catastrophize into a more productive, defiant desire to be more self-reliant, trying to see climate disasters as a challenge to confront rather than a fate to be dreaded.
Last updated on 2023-01-02 4 min read

Tracking my new year's resolutions

I can’t count the number of times I’ve set a goal to run 1,000 miles in a year. As an avid runner since high school, it felt achievable - less than 3 miles a day - and I usually lasted through January or mid-February, not running every day but consistently enough to remain roughly on track.
Last updated on 2021-01-12 9 min read R

Projects

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All OJO Personal

Assessing the First Year of SQ 780

An interactive report exploring the effects of SQ 780 on Oklahoma’s criminal justice system.
Assessing the First Year of SQ 780

2020 Goal Tracking

A Shiny dashboard built to track my goals for 2020
2020 Goal Tracking

Tracking evictions in Oklahoma during covid-19

A Shiny dashboard built for Open Justice Oklahoma to track eviction filings since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic.
Tracking evictions in Oklahoma during covid-19

Contact

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