Devon Ziminski is a doctoral research fellow at New Jersey’s Gun Violence Research Center (NJGVRC) and a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work at Rutgers University. Her research focus areas are community violence program evaluation, differences in urban/rural gun violence, relationships between gun violence, community connection, neighborhood cohesion, and asset-based community-informed research practices. Her research involves direct engagement with community partners and local and state governments on primary and secondary data collection, analysis, and program evaluation projects.

Ziminski works as a senior research project administrator at the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs (WRI) at Rutgers University – Camden.  Prior to joining WRI, she worked in various roles at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ziminski holds a bachelor’s degree from The College of New Jersey and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.