Dr. Alejandro Gimenez Santana is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, where he serves as Co-Executive Director of the Newark Public Safety Collaborative (NPSC). Before assuming the position of NPSC Co-Executive Director, he served as a consultant for the World Bank regional office in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Montevideo, Uruguay. Dr. Santana has secured over $5M in external funding in support of the Rutgers-Newark anchor initiative “Newark Public Safety Collaborative.” His contribution to the development of the Data-Informed Community Engagement model for crime prevention has been featured in national and international press outlets and, most recently, by the U.S. Department of Justice. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on crime mapping and comparative criminal justice systems across different cultures. His research foci are spatial analytics, social disorganization, communities, and neighborhood effects on crime. Dr. Santana has over ten years of experience in the criminal justice field and has been invited to present at research and practitioner conferences in over a dozen countries across Europe, Latin America, and North America. He holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University-Newark.
- Title
- School of Criminal Justice - Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
- Office Location
- 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102
- Phone Number
- 201-620-0877
- alejandro.gimenez@rutgers.edu