Noah is a current Master in Public Affairs student at Princeton University. He was raised in Minneapolis and has spent the majority of his career in public service working to end mass incarceration and reduce the harm caused by the criminal legal system. After completing his B.A. in Economics at Reed College, Noah worked in the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he participated in open market operations and market intelligence work.
After finance, he pivoted to criminal legal reform. He worked at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law where he co-authored a major report on the impact of criminal fines and fees on local government budgets. He then spent four years at the Crime and Justice Institute where he did training and technical assistance for state and local governments implementing changes to their justice systems. He helped develop performance measurement systems and oversight plans for several major statewide reform bills, as well as working with many local criminal court systems to implement alternatives to cash bail. Much of this work focused on measuring and addressing racial disparities.
Most recently Noah interned at the New York City Department of Investigation, a law enforcement body with jurisdiction over New York City agencies. His work focused on measuring bias in the NYPD’s response to public protests and on detecting campaign finance violations.