Michael Motto is a doctoral candidate and Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He is currently researching police responses to diversity in London and New York City. Michael's work incorporates an ethnographic study of race and diversity in the global city with critical attention to shifting paradigms within law enforcement and the legal infrastructure. Michael holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and Master's of Philosophy in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge. He has served as chief research assistant for an empirical study commissioned by the London Metropolitan Police of racial disparities within police activities and co-authored the final report: Disproportionality in the Metropolitan Police Service. Michael has worked as a consultant for the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City and has been a Visiting Lecturer in Yale College.  He is a Fellow at the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School, a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia University, and was appointed Visiting Scholar in the Law and Society Program at New York University from 2007-08.