Katherine Wilson McCoy is a Research Fellow in the Center for Justice Research and Evaluation. She has research experience in areas such as racial disparities in the death penalty, evidence-based policing practices, and public-private partnerships in emergency management.  Katherine has been awarded the 2024 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Doctoral Summit Fellowship and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Equity and Inclusion Fellowship. She earned an M.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida Atlantic University, B.A. in Criminology from the University of South Florida. She is a doctoral candidate in Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida, focusing on criminology, social equity, and police-citizen interactions.