Jeremiah Goulka

Jeremiah Goulka is the founder and director of the new Climate and Public Safety (CAPS) project at the Action Lab at Northeastern University School of Law, where he is also a senior fellow. He created CAPS to provide research, training, and technical assistance for law enforcement, first responder, and criminal justice agencies to help them prepare for the challenges of extreme weather, disasters, and environmental degradation.

Previously, Goulka led research projects for several federal and local agencies at the RAND Corporation, where he was a member of the RAND Center for Quality Policing and the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute, and a professor of criminal justice policy in the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he served as executive director and co-creator (with the U.S. Attorney and a Coast Guard admiral) of a joint local-state-federal task force that facilitated rebuilding and improving the New Orleans region’s criminal justice systems.

He began his career as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College and law degrees from the universities of Chicago and Edinburgh.

CAPS website: www.healthinjustice.org/caps