Anthony Petrosino, PhD
Senior Consultant – Criminal Justice

Anthony Petrosino, Ph.D., serves as a Senior Research Associate at WestEd and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Evidence-based Crime Policy at George Mason University. He has over a quarter-century of experience in conducting research and evaluation studies. Petrosino currently co-directs several studies, including state and federal evaluations of Governor Patrick’s youth firearms violence reduction program in Massachusetts, a randomized experiment of a teen pregnancy prevention program in four cities in the U.S., a quasi-experimental study of a program for homeless ex-prisoners in Minneapolis, and a systematic review of the research on school-based law enforcement programs.​

Petrosino was also a Co-Investigator from 2006-2011 of a National Institute of Justice-funded randomized experimental evaluation of a school-based resiliency program, Tribes Learning Communities (Tribes).  He was recently nominated and served on an Institute of Medicine planning committee to help design a workshop on evidence for violence prevention across the lifespan and around the world.  In 2005, he was elected "Honorary Fellow" by the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and in 2011, he received the Paul D. Hood Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field from WestEd. 

Anthony enjoys going to the gym in his free time.

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