Rachel Swaner
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration

Rachel Swaner is the associate director of research at the Center for Court Innovation. She is currently the project director of the national evaluation of the Defending Childhood Initiative, a U.S. Department of Justice initiative to address children's exposure to violence. She is also working on a national portrait of the commercial sexual exploitation of children, and an evaluation of a gun violence prevention program in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She was previously a reseacher and evaluator at Harlem Children's Zone.  She is on the advsiory board for the Participatory Budgeting Project.  Rachel received her PhD in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center, and her Bachelor of Science and Master of Public Administration from New York University.











Areas of Expertise

  • Cities
  • Education
  • Evaluation
  • Inequality
  • Policy Analysis
  • Politics
  • Poverty
  • Public & Nonprofit Orgs.
  • Race, Class, & Diversity
  • Social Policy
  • Urban Policy