Amol Naik

Amol Naik is a Project Management and Research Fellow with the USI Network. His primary responsibilities include coordinating USI Network Learning Walks and “promising practices” cross-school visits. Amol also has been working to assemble network deans to discuss innovative approaches to discipline in schools. Additionally, he actively supports the USI Network’s efforts to improve documentation and evaluation of its work with schools.

Prior to arriving at the University of Chicago, Amol spent time working at the Public Defender Service of Washington DC, the Post Incarceration Project at the University of Chicago and the Community Economic Development Law Project. In addition, he has crafted and presented policy proposals on public defense, sentencing laws and urban public education. Amol has also conducted independent historical research on racially integrated housing in suburban Chicago.

Amol graduated from the University of Chicago in Spring 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He concentrated in Political Science and American History with the majority of his coursework and research focusing on urban poverty. Amol is particularly interested in less punitive, more proactive approaches to school discipline and the criminal justice system and its relation to urban public schooling.