Laurie R. Garduque
Director, Juvenile Justice

Email: lgarduqu at macfound dot org

Laurie R. Garduque is Director of Juvenile Justice for the Foundation's Program on Human and Community Development. She provides research expertise for each strategy and ensures research elements of uniform high quality. Her primary areas of focus include mental health, juvenile justice, education, and early education and care.

Garduque joined the Foundation in 1991 after serving as Director of the National Forum on the Future of Children and Families, a joint project of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine. From 1984 to 1987, she was the Director of Governmental and Professional Liaison for the American Educational Research Association in Washington, D.C. This position followed the year she spent, from 1983 to 1984, as a Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate. From 1980 to 1985, Garduque held a faculty position as an Assistant Professor in human development at Pennsylvania State University.

She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Cathryn Crawford
Program Officer

Email: ccrawfor at macfound dot org

Cathryn Crawford is a Program Officer for Juvenile Justice in the Human & Community Development Program.

Cathryn Crawford served as a clinical professor at Northwestern School of Law and a staff attorney at the Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern’s Bluhm Legal Clinic from 1998-2008, where she focused her practice and research on indigent youth charged in criminal and delinquency proceedings. In 2007, Ms. Crawford served as the inaugural director of Juvenile Regional Services, a not-for-profit organization providing holistic representation to indigent youth charged in delinquency court in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. She assisted in assessments of indigent defense for juveniles in several states throughout the country. Ms. Crawford lectures extensively on juvenile and criminal justice issues.

She earned a B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Texas at Dallas and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

Candice Jones
Program Officer

Email: cjones at macfound dot org

Candice Jones is a Program Officer for Juvenile Justice in the Human & Community Development Program.

Candice Jones comes to the Foundation from the private law firm of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, where she served as a litigator, focusing on complex commercial matters. While pursuing her graduate studies, Candice spent time at the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division and the Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem, both in New York. She also has worked in Japan as an English Language Instructor and in Chicago as a rape crisis advocate.

Candice received a B.A. in Political Science and African and African-American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.