Using Data and Innovation to Reduce Gun Violence

Pablo Uribe thought he was done with fighting crime. That was his job as the deputy security director of his hometown of Cali, Colombia. He’d had success with reducing the murder rate there, but was feeling burned out by the work. So when Uribe left to get his master’s at the Harvard Kennedy School, he was ready to find a new purpose in public service.

That plan took a turn as he approached graduation in 2022. Uribe landed a Bloomberg Harvard City Hall Fellowship, which placed him in Syracuse, New York, for two years to work on one of Mayor Ben Walsh’s top priorities. The priority, it turned out, was reducing gun violence.

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