Jessica completed her PhD in Anthropology at Brown University in 2022. Her research traces how U.S. police officers absorb and resist reforms during a mounting legitimacy crisis, in order to understand why reforms perpetually fail to realize their promises to curb racialized violence. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with officers and reformers in Maryland, she examines how the everyday labor of policing produces a “police common sense” that translates reform efforts into the terms of police discourse. She thus theorizes police reform as a productive failure, demonstrating how its very ineffectiveness reproduces state power and white supremacy even as it is animated by ethical commitments and anti-racist ideals. Jessica’s work has been supported by National Science Foundation grants and by the Center for Engaged Scholarship.