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 National 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.

Before cofounding Luminosity in 2003, Marie worked as a probation and parole officer, a pretrial services agency manager, and a criminal justice analyst. During her more than 20 years at Luminosity, Marie has led several of the largest pretrial justice-related research studies, implemented widescale justice system reforms, and managed numerous Justice System Data Fusion projects involving millions of records from multiple siloed data systems. As Managing Director, she leads Luminosity’s business operations and organizational strategy, supports and empowers the company’s leadership team, oversees business development and senior client relationships, and is responsible for the overall success of the company.

Marie holds a doctorate in Public Policy with a specialty in research methods and statistics, a master’s degree in Public Administration, and a second master’s degree in Urban Studies from Old Dominion University. She also earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Syracuse University. Her combination of practical justice-system experience, research expertise, and organizational leadership informs her work as Luminosity’s Managing Director and Cofounder.