Our People

Portrait of Laurie R. Garduque

Staff Profile

Laurie R. Garduque

Director, Justice Reform

Laurie Garduque is the Director of Justice Reform at the Foundation.

Laurie joined the Foundation in 1991 after serving as Director of the National Forum on the Future of Children and Families, a joint project of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine. From 1984 to 1987, she was the Director of Governmental and Professional Liaison for the American Educational Research Association in Washington, D.C. This position followed the year she spent, from 1983 to 1984, as a Congressional Science Fellow in the U.S. Senate. From 1980 to 1985, Garduque held a faculty position as an Assistant Professor in human development at Pennsylvania State University.

Garduque previously was a member of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families, and the Youth Transition Funders Group Juvenile Justice Working Group, and she currently serves on the federal Center for Mental Health Services National Advisory Council, under SAMHSA. She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles

Laurie R. Garduque works on the following MacArthur programs and projects:

Juvenile Justice

Related Information

Report Finds No Benefit to Sending Juvenile Offenders to Expensive Institutional Placements

As many states face budget shortfalls, a new report on youth convicted of serious offenses finds that stays in expensive institutional placements produced no measurable results. Read More