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Valeria is a connector and social entrepreneur who is passionate about building strategic partnerships and using data and communications for social impact. Her multi-cultural upbringing and experience in 68 countries allows her to connect with companies and individuals to discover their personal identities, to share their stories and to use data for sustained impact. As the president and founder of Chaski Global, Valeria instills her strengths of communications, strategy, training, project management, and her love for improving people’s lives, in every project she comes across. She leads co...

CJRA Reform Leads to Steep Declines; 18-24 Year Olds And Black Most Cited in 2019; Marijuana Replaces Alcohol as Most Frequent Charge December 17, 2020—In 2019, young people, Black people, and people in the Bronx were most likely to be issued criminal summonses in New York City despite a significant decline in the number issued since the Criminal Justice Reform Act (CJRA) was implemented in June 2017, according to a new report, Trends in Issuance of Criminal Summonses in New York City, 2003-2019, from the Data Collaborative for Justice (DCJ) at John Jay College. “Our research shows crim...

3:13 When Congress approved the massive pandemic relief measure in March, the funds came with a catch: all the money had to be spent before January 1st, 2021.Unspent funds would be returned to the U.S. Treasury. The Hawaii Data Collaborative has been tracking the local disbursement of CARES funds locally. The project is being headed by former State Senator Jill Tokuda. “The bottom line is unless the federal government changes something, the good or service must be received by the 31st,” explains Tokuda. Tokuda and the Hawaii Data Collaborative estimate that with the New Year nearly upon u...