Lama Hassoun Ayoub

Lama Hassoun Ayoub is deputy research director at the Center for Court Innovation. She leads research studies related to school safety, youth violence, and community supervision. She is currently Principal Investigator of a comprehensive mixed-methods study of school safety, security, climate and discipline in New York City; a randomized controlled trial evaluating restorative practices in Brooklyn; and co-leads a quasi-experimental evaluation of neighborhood-oriented probation. She recently completed work on a national study of adult reentry courts and the multi-site evaluation of the Defending Childhood Demonstration Program. She also led the randomized controlled trial of the evaluating the Harlem Parole Reentry Court and randomized controlled trial evaluating a teen dating violence prevention program in schools in the Bronx. She enjoys working closely with communities as well as practitioners in criminal justice, education, and public health. She received her graduate degree from Harvard University.