ARCH Network Executive Committee

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD

Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences,
Duke University School of Medicine

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences. She is a national expert in examining how the criminal legal system impacts people, families, and communities. During the pandemic, she co-founded the COVID Prison Project, one of the only national data projects that tracks and analyzes COVID testing, cases, and deaths in prison systems across the country. She utilized the infrastructure of the COVID Prison Project to launch the Third City Project—a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded big data project that tracks and aggregates publicly available health and health policy data from carceral systems. Additionally, Dr. Brinkley-Rubinstein is the PI of several NIH and foundation grants focused on substance use, HIV prevention, and mortality.

Jane Dorotik, RN

Coordinating Leader, California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP)
Policy Advisor, Los Angeles Innocence Project

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Jane Dorotik is an RN and healthcare professional who worked for many years in the Community Mental Health Administration. She had been incarcerated for 20 years on a wrongful conviction, and thanks to the amazing work by attorneys who are now the Los Angeles Innocence Project, her conviction was overturned in May 2022. Ms. Dorotik is a Coordinating Leader of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), a Policy Advisor for the Los Angeles Innocence Project, a founding member of the UC Sentencing Project, a current member of the Board of Directors of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), and a member of the DA Accountability Coalition. Ms. Dorotik advocates for prison abolition as well as dignity and compassion for all incarcerated individuals.