Kathryn M. Nowotny

Professor and COVID Prison Project Director

Kathryn M. Nowotny is an American professor and director of the COVID Prison Project. She is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Nowotny has written extensively on the topic of mass incarceration and its impact on public health. She is a leading expert on the issue of COVID-19 in prisons and has testified before Congress on the matter.