Marc Krupanski works and writes on policing & security, public safety & justice, and effective governance. He is especially interested in viable, evidence-based solutions to safety, health, and justice, and building broad-based partnerships to make them a reality.
Currently, he is director of criminal justice policy with Arnold Ventures, where he leads efforts to improve crime prevention, public safety, and fair and effective policing through scaling evidence-based policies in the United States.
Before joining AV, Marc worked for two decades on public safety, security, and justice issues domestically and abroad. This includes work with local and national police agencies on their response to drug use, stop and search powers, and data collection and analysis. He also worked on international security sector reform and governance for the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, where he provided analysis for American and European defense and development agencies. Marc also moonlighted for Major League Baseball where he combined his love of baseball and statistical analysis.
Marc began his involvement in these issues when he was 13 years old by participating in vigils with his church’s youth group in front of state prisons when executions were held. He also found footing as a youth member at his local Boys & Girls Club.
Marc is a graduate with honors of New York University (New York, USA) and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland). He was awarded NYU’s Helen M. Jones Prize for best departmental thesis and highest academic ranking in the History Department. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha Theta honor societies as well as the Police Executive Research Forum, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, the American Society for Evidence-Based Policing, the Association of Inspectors General, Surfrider Foundation, and the Society for American Baseball Research. He is currently a contributing editor of the Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, and a member of the Maryland Office of Attorney General’s Civil Rights Advisory Council. In November, 2025 Marc was named to the Interdisciplinary Advisory Task Force for New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill.
Marc is an author of several academic and research articles and chapters, policy briefs, and editorial commentary. His writing and interviews have appeared in diverse outlets ranging from academic journals to government policy briefs to advocacy blogs and reports, such as The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Vice, The Hill, Stat, and The Crime Report, as well as by the National Defense University and MIT Press, among others.
You can follow him on Twitter: @mkrupanski.
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