Robin Olsen is a senior policy associate in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where she works on criminal and juvenile justice reform. She is leading a project on examining data availability and improvements to prosecutorial decisionmaking. Olsen’s research interests focus on using data and evidence and collaborative work across stakeholders to improve criminal and juvenile justice system outcomes. I interview Ms. Olsen on the 2020-2021 NSDA Policy Debate Resolution: "Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing." While previous experts interviewed on Blazer Briefs have focused on specific policies often related to policing, Ms. Olsen points to broader problems, mainly a lack of transparency and data in criminal justice. She discusses a lack of progress on the federal level and areas for improvement in the following Q&