Julie Poehlmann Author & Editor

Christopher Wildeman, PhD, is an associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, a visiting fellow at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and a senior researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark. His interests revolve around the consequences of mass imprisonment for inequalities in family life. He is also interested in child welfare, especially as relates to child maltreatment and the foster care system.

He is the 2008 recipient of the Dorothy S. Thomas Award from the Population Association of America and the 2013 recipient of the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.



Anna R. Haskins, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and an affiliate of the Cornell Prison Education Program, the Center for the Study of Inequality, and the Cornell Population Center. Her interests are in the areas of educational inequality, social stratification, race and ethnicity, and the intergenerational social consequences of mass incarceration. Her current research assessing the effects of paternal incarceration on children's educational outcomes and engagement in schooling has been published in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Sociological Science, and Social Science Research, in addition to being featured on Vox.com and in The Washington Post.



Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, PhD, is the Dorothy A. O'Brien Professor of Human Ecology and a professor in the human development and family studies department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being, an investigator at the Waisman Center, and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty. Dr. Poehlmann-Tynan has served as an advisor to Sesame Street to help develop and evaluate their Emmy-nominated initiative for young children with incarcerated parents and their families called Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration. She has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is the editor of two monographs and a handbook focusing on children with incarcerated parents.