Jessica Reichert is the Manager of the Center for Justice Research and Evaluation at the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. Recently, she conducted a study of police referrals to treatment programs for opioid use disorders, and she is working on a process and outcome evaluation on the second police-treatment program in the country. Reichert has published over 50 articles and reports including in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. She has recently published articles on Medication Assisted Treatment for Criminal Justice Populations and An Overview of the Opioid Crisis in Illinois, as well as was an author of the state's opioid plan. Reichert sits on Illinois' State Opioid Crisis Response Council, Cook County Opioid Task Force and the National PTAC (Police, Treatment, and Community) Collaborative. She has presented at national and state forums on the criminal justice response to the opioid crisis. In addition, Reichert is an adjunct instructor at Loyola University Chicago. She earned her master’s degree in criminal justice from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.