Dominic Coschino

Graduate Student (Public Policy). Dominic Coschino is from Roseville, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 2019 with a double major in History and Political Science before entering the Ford School to study public policy. He was a member of the original Detroit Under Fire team for the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab and is now a research associate with the Conditions of Confinement team. Dom wrote his senior honors thesis on the class-action litigation against the Wayne County Jail in the late 1960s and early 1970s and then created a StoryMap and infographics about this case for the DCC project. He believes in using law and policy to empower disaffected communities and dismantle the carceral state.