Claire Kelling is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She received her Dual PhD in Statistics and Social Data Analytics from Penn State. Claire’s research engages statistics, sociology, and data science in order to study and develop statistical methods to inform evidence-based policy. Her primary focus recently is on the development of statistical methods in spatial statistics for the analysis of policing data in partnership with community organizations. She is interested in ways to accurately characterize intricacies in policing patterns and their interactions with communities through information about individual officers and civilians as well as characteristics of events (location, time, injuries, etc.). Claire also recently co-organized the Ingram Olkin Forum on “Statistical Challenges in the Analysis of Police Use of Force” in November 2023.