[2] She worked at OPower, a platform which helped people make better decisions about their energy usage using behavioral economics.
Jacoby's work looks to make real-time data available for justice agencies and, ultimately, reduce recidivism.
[1] Jacoby is the Founder and executive director of Recidiviz,[2][8] a nonprofit platform that allows states to collect, clean, standardize and share fragmented data.
Recidiviz makes use of an algorithm to recommend people for early release, so-called smart decarceration.
[4] As COVID-19 spread through prison populations,[10] North Dakota made use of Recidiviz to identify inmates who were eligible for release.