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Kelly Deegan is a Senior Research Analyst at DRC. Kelly runs focus groups, performs statistical analyses on data gathered, and assists with jury selections. She also performs fact research and memo drafting, media analyses, and assists in drafting everything from focus group questionnaires to voir dire questions.

Before joining DRC, Kelly received her B.A. in Psychology from Loyola University Maryland. She conducted and published a study concerning the problematic alcohol consumption habits of students with fake identification and assisted in a study on the sleep habits of juvenile detainees. Kelly has a Master's of Experimental Psychology from Towson University, where she researched how monitoring performance impacts the accuracy of fingerprint identifications. Professionally, Kelly has worked as an evaluator and competency instructor for forensic psychiatric patients, as a teaching assistant, and as a research assistant.