INSIGHTS

GENA KEEBLER

Managing Director

Gena Keebler cofounded Luminosity in 2003 with the mission of advancing pretrial justice in America. She believes that by leveraging data and analytics, Luminosity can empower communities to improve public safety, eliminate racial disparity, reduce costs, and increase fairness. Gena applied her previously acquired business management skills and success as an executive for a well-regarded international corporation to quickly propel Luminosity to the forefront and firmly establish it as a pioneer in its field.

LEADERSHIP – As the Managing Director, Gena manages the business operations and is responsible for the overall success of the company. She leads, empowers, and supports the team to ensure Luminosity remains mission driven and meets its core values of Integrity, Expertise, Collaboration, Innovation, Professionalism, and Excellence.

MANAGEMENT – Gena’s skilled identification and management of nationally recognized employees, contractors, and corporate partners has led to successful partnerships with jurisdictions across the country to conduct many of the largest pretrial justice related studies, implement sweeping justice system reforms, and successfully execute widescale justice system data integration projects.

MARIE VANNOSTRAND, Ph.D.

Director of Data Analytics

Dr. Marie VanNostrand is an accomplished practitioner, skilled researcher, and nationally recognized expert in the pretrial stage of the justice system. She has presented her work at more than 100 national and state conferences including a White House Convening on Criminal Justice Reform, the US Attorney General’s Symposium on Pretrial Justice, and the Congressional Briefing on Pretrial Justice. Marie’s research has been published in top-tier journals including Crime & Delinquency and Justice Quarterly, cited in numerous high profile media outlets, and profiled in an NBC News Special Report and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE – Before cofounding Luminosity in 2003, Marie worked as a probation and parole officer, a pretrial services agency manager, and a criminal justice analyst. Her unique combination of practical knowledge and educational achievements serve her well in her role as Luminosity’s Director of Data Analytics. During her nearly 20 years at Luminosity Marie has led several of the largest pretrial justice related studies, implemented widescale justice system reforms, and managed numerous justice system data integration projects involving millions of records from multiple siloed data systems.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS – Over the course of her career, Marie has amassed an impressive list of academic credentials. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, a master’s degree in Public Administration, a second master’s degree in Urban Studies, and a doctorate in Public Policy with a specialty in research methods and statistics.

MARCIA REBIMBAS

Senior Business Analyst

Marcia Rebimbas led the multi-year initiative to develop Luminosity’s model for monitoring and evaluating pretrial justice systems. She led the team in the development of approximately 50 standardized performance and outcome measures critical to all pretrial justice systems accompanied by business logic documents, process flowcharts, timelines, and other visualizations. Marcia is currently leading the implementation of Luminosity’s model for monitoring and evaluating pretrial justice systems in two large US cities.  She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Temple University, a Master’s Degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.

Prior to working with Luminosity, Marcia managed and provided direct services at several community-based justice programs and worked as a juvenile probation officer. Most recently, she worked for the New Jersey courts and played an integral role during the planning and implementation of the state’s Criminal Justice Reform. Marcia served the critical role of bridging the knowledge and communication gaps between practitioners, legal scholars, researchers, and IT professionals. She also translated the new statute into business requirements for several software applications. After the implementation of Criminal Justice Reform, Marcia served as the Chief of Pretrial Services and oversaw all aspects of program operations including policy, practice, automation, and evaluation.

CHARLIE CARTER

Policy Research Analyst

Since joining Luminosity in 2019, Charlie Carter has led the programming and dashboard development components of Luminosity’s partnership with New York City to integrate justice system data and create dashboards, reports, and research datasets.  Charlie generated a comprehensive pipeline containing the logic required to link the data and generate all of the research, performance, and outcome measures.  Charlie is currently building dashboards, storyboards, and other visualizations to monitor justice system reforms and gain analytical insights.  Charlie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular Biology and a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of South Florida.

Prior to joining Luminosity, Charlie conducted research in a computational chemistry lab and completed a Master’s thesis on a novel machine learning technique.  Thereafter, Charlie gained valuable knowledge working as a Data Scientist at a criminal justice research institution and as an Actuarial Analyst in the private sector.  Charlie has built machine learning models and analytical pipelines, managed and collated data across multiple sources, and built presentations and visualizations for key metrics in the justice system.

ANNDI RUSSELL

Data Scientist

Anndi Russell is a trained Data Scientist with expertise in data wrangling, mining, analysis, and visualization. She is skilled at integrating data from multiple sources, performing analysis, creating meaningful visualizations, and building predictive models to gain insights. While working on her master’s degree in data science, Anndi completed numerous machine learning and model creation related projects, culminating in a capstone project in which she built a model intended to predict a Supreme Court Justice’s vote using natural language processing techniques. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Luther College and a Master’s Degree in Data Science from the University of Denver.

Prior to joining Luminosity in 2021, Anndi held a variety of roles across the nonprofit and education sectors. She worked in college admissions and managed recruitment efforts for 13 states. Anndi is also an experienced teacher, applying her skills in different arenas, including as a science teacher and in outdoor education. She leverages these skills to clearly explain and successfully teach complex topics to new audiences.

KIRK COLLINS

Data Engineer

Kirk Collins is a highly skilled programmer with expertise in both database architecture and administration.  For the past 20 years, he has applied these skills exclusively to projects which promote and support the reform of the justice system.  His expertise in data integration and data analysis profoundly impacted reform efforts in numerous places including Michigan, where 20 years of court data was linked to local jail data for analysis.  Kirk has also integrated data from siloed statewide criminal justice databases in support of several research projects and to inform the implementation of criminal justice reform.

As a developer, Kirk has created user-centered designs to assist in the collection, analysis, and presentation of criminal justice data.  He has extensive working knowledge of numerous data platforms including experience with CJIS Security Policy compliant platforms. This experience includes design, implementation, testing, launching, and supporting complex data systems in a secure environment.

BRIAN KAYS

Data Architect

Brian Kays has worked within the justice system as a practitioner and consultant for nearly 30 years.  He is highly skilled in the development, documentation, and implementation of data pipeline solutions including the import, analysis, cleansing, and merging of datasets from a diverse range of data sources and platforms.  In his role of Data Architect, he has applied these skills to generate several of the largest integrated datasets used for justice system related research in the federal court, two of the largest cities in the US, and a multi-jurisdictional dataset used for research on pretrial release outcomes.

Brian has a strong background in the administration of all major operating system platforms; design, implementation, and administration of network infrastructures; and design, implementation, and management of virtualization technologies including self-hosted and cloud-based implementations (e.g., Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Azure GovCloud).  In addition, Brian has extensive knowledge of software requirement specifications and has developed, tested, and implemented applications that are in use by criminal justice agencies in several states.