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Merrick Bobb
Merrick Bobb is the President and founding director of PARC, a project Vera developed and launched in Los Angeles. A lawyer, he was the first person to occupy the role of police monitor and has become a nationally recognized expert on police oversight and reform. Merrick has monitored the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for sixteen years and has consulted with jurisdictions around the country and with the U.S. Department of Justice.
tel: (213) 623-5757
Matthew Barge joined PARC in 2006 as a Research Analyst. Prior to PARC, Matthew worked at a nonpartisan political journalism website, Factcheck.org, and at the Los Angeles office of Big Brothers Big Sisters, a national non-profit serving at-risk youth. He holds a B.A. in government from Georgetown University.
Yael Mazar
Yael Mazar joined PARC as a Research Analyst in 2008. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Columbia University, and received her J.D. from New York University Law School. Upon completing law school, Yael spent several years at a New York City law firm, representing clients in government investigations of white collar crime. She then turned to the non-profit sector, working in hate crimes and discrimination complaints. She has interned with the Criminal Appellate Defender Clinic in New York and the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, General Crimes Division.
Camelia Naguib
Camelia Naguib joined PARC as a Research Associate in 2006. She holds a B.A. in Politics from Oberlin College and a Master of Public Policy from the UCLA School of Public Affairs, where she concentrated in the area of Crime and Drug Control Policy. While at UCLA, she worked to improve the release process at the Los Angeles County Jail. Camelia previously served as Assistant Program Director at Milestones, a residential multi-service center for state and county parolees in San Francisco. She has also worked as an evaluator for the UCLA School Management Program.
Timothy Shugrue
Timothy Shugrue joined PARC in March 2004 as administrative manager. Prior to PARC, he was an assistant controller for The New Organics Company in Boston and later in Long Beach, California. He was an accounting manager at Lyon Freres, a gourmet food store and catering company in Miami Beach, Florida. Tim attended the Community College of Rhode Island where he studied liberal arts and received his accounting certificate from the Miami Institute of Technology.
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