James Pagano was a Government Innovation Fellow working with the State of Illinois Department of Corrections on prisoner reentry. He is a graduate of the MPP program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he focused on analytic methods, election reform, and good government. Prior to earning his MPP, James worked as a Program Officer with Democracy International where he helped to manage and support election and good governance programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). James holds a BA in Political Science and International Studies from Dickinson College.