The Roosevelt Institution
School: Cornell University
Member of:
Administrative Team
Core Chapters and Staff
Cornell University
Rebuilding Criminal Justice
Center on Public Awareness
Rebuilding the Criminal Justice System
Senior Staff
Think International
Contact info:
| Login Email: | thk7(AT)cornell.edu |
Policy interests: Criminal justice, Diversity, race, and opportunity, International development, Poverty and social justice, The courts, The media, Urban policy
As a Government major, Tim Krueger’s academic interests challenge all stereotypes surrounding students involved with the Roosevelt Institution. From his position as ’06-’07 Policy Director of Roosevelt Cornell, Tim has seen his school’s chapter mature from a room of competing voices to a network of five productive policy centers. His interest in the Roosevelt Institution is fueled by the organization’s capacity to approach the policy process through creative methods that only undergrad minds could conceive. For instance, the Cornell chapter’s Center on Public Awareness combined art and environmentalism in its Ecological Footprint Project by amassing photographs of students holding the number of earths it would take to sustain a global population with their own lifestyles. Tim and the Cornell chapter finished off the year with an amazing Launch event that gave special focus to the issue of Chinese development, and its implications for the rest of the world. Outside of Roosevelt, Tim (’08) is a columnist for the Cornell Daily Sun and chairs the Pi Sigma Alpha Government Honor’s Society at Cornell.
Tim is currently coordinating the Criminal Justice challenge, which addresses issues such as judicial reform, the prison system, environmental justice, and the drug trade. As rates of incarceration in the