PROFESSOR AND CHAIR
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Email: abrams@luskin.ucla.edu
Website: https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/laura-abrams 

Laura S. Abrams, MSW, PhD is Professor and Chair of Social Welfare at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her ethnographic scholarship has critically examined experiences of youth in the US justice system through reentry and the transition to adulthood. Currently she is pursuing research in the area of youth justice policy, urban youth civic engagement, and the aftermath of youth sentenced to life in prison. She is the author of two award winning ethnographic books: Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (2013, Rutgers University Press) and Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth (2017, Rutgers University Press) and over 85 peer reviewed articles. She is the lead editor of The Voluntary Sector in Prisons: Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change (2016, Palgrave) co-editor of The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment (2021, Palgrave), and co-author of the monograph Pathways to Civic Engagement Among Urban Youth of Color (2020, Society for Research on Child Development).

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Reentry
• Race/Racism

Email: eallensocialphd@gmail.com

Website: http://www.drelizabethallen.org/

I bring more than 25 years of clinical experience with justice-involved women and other marginalized groups. I am tenaciously committed to smart decarceration research, policy, and practice and throughout my career aimed to embrace what academia together with activism can offer change-agents and guide and support radical social change.

My dissertation research was an inquiry into redemptive narratives and the distance process for justIce-involved women with the goal of adding to the knowledge base of desistance, advocating for policies and interventions that support the process of distance and promoting a unifying framework to bridge micro and macro approaches with vulnerable and marginalized populations. Currently, I am a PI on a CBPR project using Photovoice with the urban youth with the lived experience of parental incarceration.

The synthesis of my clinical and research experience prepares me for the dual role of researcher and policy-maker and utilizing evidence to advance policy and practice. My research interests are vast and include the intersection of micro and macro issues amplified within criminal justice systems including racial, gender and economic justice and human rights.

Topic Areas: 

• Gender and Sexuality
• Race/Racism

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Pronouns: they/he

Email: mbakko@umich.edu

Website: https://ssw.umich.edu/phdstudents/profiles/sociology/mbakko

Matthew Bakko is an organizational scholar with a critical concern for how social service systems, organizations, and providers advance both oppression and liberation. Bakko addresses this concern by exploring how social service organizations are impacted by and engage with their external environments, including policy shifts, funding and resource dynamics, and political changes in their institutional and community contexts. His current work and dissertation research specifically explores social service organizations that interface with carceral systems.

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Policy and Courts

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE

Email: tina.barr@uncp.edu 
Website: https://www.uncp.edu/profile/tina-barr 

My relevant research centers on issues related to wrongful conviction, including reentry, psychosocial effects, and compensation.

Topic Areas:

• Policy and Courts
• Reentry

CONSULTANT AND TRAINER

Email: info@katebarrow.com

Website: https://www.katebarrow.com  and www.trainingforjustice.com 

Kate Barrow, LCSW, specializes in trauma-informed and anti-oppressive approaches to social services, management, and systems change work. She has expertise in criminal justice, mental health, trauma, racial justice, and youth development. She currently works as a nonprofit management trainer, organizational consultant, clinical supervisor, and management coach, with an emphasis on criminal justice settings.

A nonprofit manager for 15 years, Kate spent nearly a decade working in the criminal justice system. From 2015-2018 she directed a professional development institute for an interdisciplinary criminal justice agency in New York City. In this role she led the professional development initiatives for a staff of over 500, and directed 150 hours of trainings annually. Previously, she directed clinical programs in court-based, social service, and foster care settings, with a focus on systems-involved youth. She has been an adjunct professor at New York University, and John Jay College through the Prisoner Reentry Institute. Kate was previously named an emerging social work leader by the National Association of Social Workers New York City Chapter for her work incorporating social justice values into clinical work.

Kate completed her BA at Naropa University in Contemplative Psychology, her MSW at the Silver School of Social Work at NYU, and an advanced certificate in clinical supervision through Smith College. She is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of New York.

Topic Areas:

• Policy and Courts
• Juvenile Justice
• Mental Health
• Racial Justice and Equity Practices

PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR DOCTORAL EDUCATION, DENVER UNIVERSITY

Email: kimberly.bender@du.edu

Website: https://socialwork.du.edu/about/gssw-directory/kimberly-ann-bender 

Professor Kimberly Bender serves as Associate Dean for Doctoral Education. Her recent research includes a study of gender-specific pathways from childhood maltreatment to juvenile delinquency among youth in the child welfare system. Bender’s research aims to improve services and develop empirically based interventions for adolescents at risk of problem behavior. She recently contributed to an intervention research project on methods for engaging runaway youth in substance-use treatment funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse.

Topic Areas:

• Health and/or Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Gender and Sexuality

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Email: jbonsu2@uic.edu

Bio: I am a doctoral candidate at Jane Addams College of Social Work, activist, and restorative justice practitioner. My work is based in an intersectional and structural analysis. My current work interrogates the intersection of gender-based violence, policing, and survivor empowerment; building and sustaining models of transformative justice; and policies that directly impact incarcerated people and their families.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry
• Community Involvement
• Policy and Courts
• Restorative Justice
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Health/Mental Health
• Gender and Sexuality
• Abolition
• Race/Racism

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

Email: britabookser@berkeley.edu

Website: https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/people/phd-students

Brita A. Bookser’s research interests include early care and education, education policy, carceral logics in education, feminist anti-carceral studies, womanism, and critical race theory. Her research-praxis agenda is facilitated by varied agency partnerships that explore policies and pedagogies for inclusion and civic engagement. Bookser’s qualitatively-driven mixed-method dissertation explores a typology of exclusionary discipline measures in preschools and examines how structural factors influence exclusionary tactics in early care and education settings.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Policy and Courts
• Restorative Justice
• Juvenile Justice
• Health/Mental Health
• Gender and Sexuality
• Decarceration
• Race/Racism

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Pronouns: she/her

Email: brockpet@ucla.edu

Website: https://kristenbrockpetroshius.com/

I study community organizing strategies to increase support for racial justice policies. I am particularly interested in how to build support for anti-carceral and abolitionist policies and how to do this work in majority white communities. I am currently conducting a field experiment that examines the effects of deep canvass organizing on increasing support for a jail divestment policy and changing associated carceral and racialized attitudes among registered voters in majority white Los Angeles County neighborhoods. In addition to examining causal effects, this study compares an approach that explicitly discuss racism in the criminal legal system with one that does not and also compares an approach that focuses only on a canvasser sharing personal narratives with one that also includes canvassers asking voters to share stories about personal experiences with jails, addiction, mental health, and violence.

Topic Areas:

• Abolition
• Community Involvement
• Race/Racism

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Email: rob.butters@socwk.utah.edu

Website: https://faculty.utah.edu/u0050005-ROB_BUTTERS/teaching/index.hml

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Restorative Justice

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

Email: canadake@missouri.edu

Website: http://ssw.missouri.edu/faculty_canada.htm

Kelli received her Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Depauw University, a Master’s of Science in Social Work at Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Kelli worked in Chicago as a clinical social worker in psychiatric rehabilitation and with older adults living in the community. Kelli is a mental health services researcher who investigates mental health service delivery and consumer experiences with treatment within the criminal justice system. Some of her most recent projects explored the experiences of consumers in mental health courts and veterans within the criminal justice system.

Topic Areas: 

• Health and/or Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Policy and Courts

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

Email: rachel.casey@maine.edu

Website: https://usm.maine.edu/swo/rachel-casey-phd-msw

Rachel earned her MSW and PhD from the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University. Rachel conducts research across methodologies to illuminate the unique experiences of incarcerated women, aiming to improve the responsiveness of mental health programs in correctional settings. Rachel is also passionate about teaching and has taught courses in research methods, human behavior in the social environment, and social justice. Regardless of subject matter, Rachel strives to engage students in dynamic learning experiences which help them develop a critical perspective and acquire essential knowledge and skills for competent, reflexive social work practice.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Gender and Sexuality

DOCTORAL STUDENT, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK 

Email: cristinochavez@mail.adelphi.edu

My research interests and professional experience revolve around criminal and juvenile justice, gang violence and membership, racism in justice, restorative justice practices, mental health and trauma, policies and legislations regarding criminal justice, and immigration.

Topic Areas:

•  Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry
• Race/Racism
• Restorative Justice

J. FRANKLIN BAYHI ENDOWED PROFESSOR, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Email: wesleyc@lsu.edu

Websit: https://www.lsu.edu/chse/socialwork/faculty-staff/church.php

My research agenda has been concentrated in two areas. First, I have been examining issues facing children and adolescents and their families. I am interested in the impact of race, socio-economic status, gender, education, crime, and family on the involvement of children and their families as they navigate their way through major systems (i.e. welfare, justice, and healthcare). Second, I have been exploring personal perceptions and attitudes towards offenders, focusing on sexual offenders and mentally ill offenders. I use an interdisciplinary approach in my research and utilize resources derived from criminal justice, psychology, history, minority studies, social work, gerontology, and rural studies.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Race/Racism

GRADUATE STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Email: Dominique.Courts@uconn.edu

Website: https://ssw.uconn.edu/person/c-l-dominique-courts-ma-mft/#

After graduating from NYU with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Psychology with a concentration in Social and Cultural Analysis, Dominique Courts, MA, MFT, earned a clinical master’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy at UCONN. Following her work as a therapist, Dominique is now a Crandall-Cordero fellow at The UCONN School of Social Work and invested in affecting change on an institutional and systems level.

As a doctoral student, she is particularly interested in using a reproductive and healing justice framework to understand the healing process for people, who live with intersecting marginalized identities, especially lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer individuals of color. The lack of visibility and research around LGBTQ people of color led her to be passionate about conducting mixed-methods and participatory action research to explore various aspects of their lived experiences. Ultimately, Dominique desires to amplify the voices of marginalized populations in her research and use collaborative and empowering research methods and accessible dissemination techniques.

Throughout the CT community, Dominique also facilitates workshops and groups focused on relationships, LGBTQ identities and other topics related to social justice and healing. She centers the lived experiences and needs of the individuals at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender and ability in her research, teaching, clinical and community work and advocacy.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry
• Restorative Justice
• Gender and Sexuality

PROFESSOR, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Email: ecramer@vcu.edu

Website: https://www.socialwork.vcu.edu/about/our-team/elizabeth-p-cramer-phd-lcsw.html

My recent scholarship has been in the area of abuse of people with disabilities. I am currently the PI on a project to make family abuse protective orders more accessible for abused persons with disabilities and to train disability service professionals to assist consumers who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. I am the co-PI on a project to provide information about healthy relationships to persons with developmental and other disabilities. I have also written about criminal justice responses to intimate partner violence.

Topic Areas:

• Gender and Sexuality

PROFESSOR

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA-ANCHORAGE

Pronouns: he/him/his

Email: mjcuellar@alaska.edu

Bio: Scholarship focuses on school violence and school security. Teaching expertise incudes mental health and juvenile justice.

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Health/Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Race/Racism
• Restorative Justice

POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLAR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

Email: aditidas@berkeley.edu

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAIAABHAIC8BhhPRzH-lrUjuvQVFokkYPIA1Dkw&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile_pic

Aditi Das is a former Postdoctoral Scholar at the Mack Center on Nonprofit and Public Sector Management in the Human Services at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Das’s research focuses on strengthening upstream human service delivery for vulnerable children, youth and families while assessing sustainability of reform efforts within complex human service organizations. In close partnership with California Bay Area counties, Aditi lead three projects focused on 1) understanding client and frontline worker perspectives on recent TANF policy reforms, 2) showcasing innovative county practices within child welfare and welfare-to-work services, and 3) building a compendium of age-friendly initiatives for adult and aging services.  Her dissertation supported by a competitive grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, focuses on the implementation of restorative justice reform within an urban public-school district to address the school-to-prion pipeline. Her work has been published at premier social work journals such as Contemporary Justice Review, Youth and Society and has presented her work at various national conferences including the Society for Social Work and Research, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management and Network for Social Work Management. Dr. Das completed her PhD from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and her MSW from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.

Research Interests: Youth violence prevention, Juvenile Justice, Restorative justice, Informal social control and public safety.
​Teaching Interests: Youth violence prevention, Cross national ideation on juvenile crime and delinquency, Restorative justice and alternative approaches to crime and prevention

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice
• Restorative Justice

ASSISTANT DEAN FOR RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Email: dana.dehart@sc.edu

Website: http://cosw.sc.edu/faculty/dana-dehart

Dr. DeHart’s specialty area is violence and victimization. She has been Principal Investigator on many grants and contracts addressing issues such as victimization and survivor services, impact of incarceration on families, gendered pathways to adult and juvenile offending, mental health and substance abuse, and predatory sexual behavior. Dr. DeHart has expertise in a range of qualitative and quantitative methods and has conducted hundreds of interviews with adult and juvenile offenders, crime victims, justice professionals, and human-service providers. Dr. DeHart is experienced in needs assessment, program evaluation, scale design, and ethical research design.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Gender and Sexuality

. SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, CHAPIN HALL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Email: adworsky@chapinhall.org

Website: https://www.chapinhall.org/person/amy-dworsky/

Interests include incarcerated mothers and their children and child welfare services involvement among children of incarcerated parents 

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons

INSTRUCTOR OF CHILD ADVOCACY STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE

Website: https://sam.research.sc.edu/uscera/facultyExpertise/cv/35304#bio

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Juvenile Justice
• Health and/or Mental Health

She trains the Prison Officers of India and is a consultant, drafting Prison Officers training manuals for the Ministry of Home Affairs through the Bureau of Police Research and Development. She was on the Release Board Advisory Board of Tamilnadu Prisons. She is the co-founder of the MSW department for VIT University Vellroe and is a board of studies member for many social work universities and colleges. She is a master trainer for the National Institute of Social Defense for Alcohol and Drug Abuse related training programs. She has drafted training manuals on Radicalization in prisons, social workers, undertrial review committees, board of visitors to prisoners, and the District Legal Services Authority. She has also drafted basic course manuals for probation and parole officers and a detailed one year training manual for Prison Officers at Level One. She has presented and published many papers related to social work and criminal justice in national dailies and journals and contributed chapters to books. She has YouTube videos of her social work sessions with Prison Officers and other communities. She has been a member of the sexual harassment of the sexual harassment prevention committee. She is the co-editor of the APCA newsletter. She is a regular faculty member to Haggai International, USA on the topic of training skills.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Prisoners
• Children and Families
• Jails and Prisons
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Policy and Courts
• Race/Racism

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE

Email: jeerwin@siue.edu

Website: https://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/social-work/faculty-staff/erwin.shtml

My research focus has primarily explored adult mental health courts. Additional research interests include examining the experiences of adults with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system and the role of peer support in treatment courts.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Community Involvement
• Health/Mental Health
• Decarceration
• Policy and Courts

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE

Email: espinozl@strose.edu

Liz Espinoza has forensic social work experience at state government level in NY.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry
• Community Involvement
• Policy and courts
• Restorative Justice
• Juvenile Justice
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Health and Mental health
• Decarceration
• Gender and Sexuality

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

Email: gfedock@uchicago.edu

Website: https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/g-fedock

Gina Fedock is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Service Administration. Her work focuses on improving women’s mental health and spans the boundaries of public health, criminal justice, law, and social work. Her research includes implementing, testing, and evaluating interventions that are designed to improve the quality of women’s health in the community and within correctional settings. In addition, her work expands a trauma-informed framework of understanding and addressing women’s health needs. She integrates women’s experiences of gender-based violence, such as sexual violence and intimate partner violence, into her research. Through a human rights framework, her work incorporates advocacy for addressing social injustices in order to improve women’s health and wellbeing.

Currently, she is working on several studies, including examining women’s experiences of staff sexual misconduct in prisons and on parole and investigating racial and gender disparities in suicide attempts by prisoners. Through a faculty grant from the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, she is investigating how human rights standards influence women’s imprisonment.

Her research is in journals such as: Trauma, Violence, & Abuse; Cognitive and Behavioral Practice; Research on Social Work Practice; Journal of Interpersonal Violence; and the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons​
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Gender and Sexuality
• Race/Racism

PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

Email: michael.fendrich@uconn.edu

Website: https://ssw.uconn.edu/person/michael-fendrich-phd/

 I conduct research on interventions for mental health and substance use in vulnerable and high risk populations.  My work has examined the impact of drug treatment courts in addressing the needs of heroin involved participants and emerging adults.  My work has also examined the role of alternative criminal justice interventions specifically focused on juveniles in the criminal justice system.  Most recently, I am developing mindful interventions for opioid involved adults reentering the community from the criminal justice system.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol/Drugs
• Juvenile Justice

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Pronouns: He/Him

Email: john.gallagher@morgan.edu

Website: https://www2.morgan.edu/school_of_social_work/about_us/our_faculty/john_r_gallagher.html

Gallagher teaches in the Master of Social Work (MSW) Department. His expertise is in clinical social work, substance use disorder and mental health treatment and recovery, and policy analysis and advocacy. Dr. Gallagher’s research agenda is focused on the use of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in treating opioid use disorders; exploring drug court and other treatment court participants’ lived experiences in programming; identifying the factors that may contribute to racial disparities in treatment court outcomes; program evaluation for drug courts and other treatment courts; and implementing evidence-based interventions to promote substance use disorder and mental health recovery. He serves as Associate Editor for Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, is on the editorial board for the Journal for Advancing Justice, and has been invited to serve as a peer-reviewer for over 30 academic journals. Dr. Gallagher has developed a national reputation for excellence in drug court research, and he helped develop the Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED) Program Assessment Tool, presents the equity and inclusion curriculum for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), and advocates for best-practice standards in serving African Americans in drug court. Dr. Gallagher is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor (LCAC) who has practiced substance use disorder and mental health counseling since 2002.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Race/Racism

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Email: jmgallag@uark.edu

Bio: My work focuses on behavioral and social interventions delivered within the criminal justice system. Current projects include (1) intervention and program fidelity in a mentor program for justice-involved veterans; (2) evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts in Arkansas and Arizona, and (3) testing of a letter-writing group intervention for inmates with minor children. Topical and theoretical areas of interest include veterans, problem-solving courts, incarcerated parents, procedural justice, legal legitimacy, social identity, community bonds, peer-mentorship, and program evaluation.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Policy and Courts

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, DIRECTOR OF MA PROGRAM IN APPLIED QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Email: amanda.geller@nya.edu

Website: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/amanda-beth-geller.html

The focus of my research is twofold: examining the causes and effects of incarceration for men and their families, and examining racial disparities in the administration of justice.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Reentry

DOCTORAL STUDENT, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Email: mgilmour@fsu.edu

Website: https://csw.fsu.edu/person/matthew-gilmour

My current research interests are focused on correctional and criminal justice system policies and reform, particularly inmate medical and mental health care, inmate rights, privatization of correctional/criminal justice services, reentry and rehabilitation. I am also interested in the utilization of research in advocacy work as it relates to social justice in general, particularly racial disparities and other issues involving the oppression of marginalized populations.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry
• Policy and Courts
• Restorative Justice
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Race/Racism

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, ST. JOHNS COLLEGE, MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND

Email: sgiwa@mun.ca

Website: https://www.mun.ca/socialwork/about/people/faculty/DrSulaimonGiwa.php

Dr. Giwa’s professional experience includes direct practice; research and policy work at the community and federal level, primarily in youth health promotions, community and organizational practice in diverse communities, corrections (including as a Community Parole Officer and Case Manager for Time for Change, a Crime Prevention Ottawa funded gang exit program), and policing.

His applied research program and professional activities centralize critical race transformative pedagogies and theories as frameworks and analytic tools for social justice and equity. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of race and sexuality; critical social work pedagogy; antiracism/oppression; and the criminal justice system. He has taught in the social work programs at Ryerson University and York University, and in the Police Foundations program at Sheridan College.

Topic Areas:

• Race/Racism

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SUNY ULSTER

Email: Godfreyi@sunyulster.edu

Website: http://sunyulster.edu

I have participated in a recent research study about the value of post secondary education for incarcerated persons. My teaching interest and expertise is in Alternative to Incarceration & Reentry strategies and iniatives

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry
• Restorative Justice

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Email: sara.goodkind@pitt.edu

Website: https://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/people/sara-goodkind

Dr. Goodkind’s research and scholarship focus on marginalized youth and the inequities they experience. Much of her work examines social service programs and systems that work with young people, concentrating on young people’s experiences in educational, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems and how these systems both construct and meet the needs of the young people they serve. Dr. Goodkind developed her scholarly interests as a result of working with youth, as a teacher, mentor, facilitator, and social worker. She utilizes a critical perspective in her work to examine understandings of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age that shape service design and delivery and then to explore the effects of this service provision, with the aim of ensuring that interventions are culturally relevant, gender responsive, fair, and effective. Dr. Goodkind’s research also focuses on institutional biases and systemic inequities, tracing young people’s pathways through systems and providing evidence and advocacy for much-needed policy change. Much of this work is via community-based participatory research projects that engage youth as collaborators in effecting systemic change.

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice
• Gender and Sexuality
• Race/Racism

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, JANE ADDAMS COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Email: agott19@uic.edu

Website: https://socialwork.uic.edu/facultyandstaff/aaron-gottlieb/

Dr. Gottlieb’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, how to effectively reduce U.S. reliance on incarceration, and examining the implications of reallocating resources away from traditional forms of public safety. His scholarship has been published in leading social work, criminology, and sociology journals, and has been cited in a wide range of media outlets, including the New York Times and the Atlantic.

Topic Areas: 

• Decarceration
• Jails and Prisons
• Policy and Courts
• Race/Racism 

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Email: grady@cua.edu

Website: https://ncsss.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/grady-melissa/index.html

I study individuals who have committed sexual crimes, both in terms of how to create more effective treatment and to think about risk factors that contribute to offending behaviors.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons

CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR & ASSISTANT DEAN OF FIELD EDUCATION, SUNY STONY BROOK

Email: warren.graham@stonybrook.edu

Having taught on both the graduate and undergraduate levels multiple institutions over the years, I oversaw the administration of Nassau County Adult and Juvenile Drug Court Programs for 7 years. prior to that I worked in outpatient substance abuse and alternatives to incarceration treatment programs. I have also been active in NASW, having been elected as Delegate to the National Assembly, Division Director, Program Committee, and selected as Advocacy and Governmental Relations Committee member. I am currently a member of the NASW NYS Diversity Committee, member of the NASW Social Work in the Courts Specialty Practice Section where I publish annually, and am a CSWE Council on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity member. I have authored/co-authored “Criminal Injustice Competency” (NASW, 2019), “Navigating Privilege and Confidentiality for Social Workers in Legal Settings” (NASW, 2020), and “Specialized opportunities for Social Workers in the Courts” (NASW, 2010) as a part of the inaugural newsletter, co-authored “The Death of Black Males: The unmasking of cultural competence and oppressive practices in a micro-aggressive environment” (Routledge, 2016), “Evidence Based Practices for the Criminal Justice System” (2018), “To Protect and to Serve,” a book chapter in the Violence Against Black Bodies book. I am a Board member of DC based non-profit, re-entry program, Darnice’s Place, and the NYS Social Work Educator’s Association and am interested in decarceration. On the Board of Advisors for the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at Hofstra University, I am a forensic social worker in private practice for over 12 years, and member of the National Organization of Forensic Social Workers.

Topic Areas:

• Decarceration
• Policy and Courts
• Race/Racism
• Restorative Justice

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SOONGSIL UNIVERSITY

Email: whan@ssu.ac.kr

Woojae Han is an assistant professor of School of Social Work at Soongsil University in Korea. His research focuses on alternative court system, community rehabilitation for offenders with mental illness, and behavioral health disparities for populations at risk.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Community Involvement
• Policy and Courts
• Juvile Justice
• Health/Mental Health
• Decarceration

PHD STUDENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Email: saha2@pdx.edu

Sam’s research focuses on carceral social work, abolitionist social work, social welfare history, transformative justice, mandatory reporting, child sexual abuse. Sam co-convenes the Abolitionist Social Work SIG for SSWR, which holds monthly virtual meetings. To get added to the listserv this, email Sam at saha2@pdx.edu.

Topic Areas:

• Abolition

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, CENTER FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG STUDIES & SERVICES, SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY

Email: mhohman@mail.sdsu.edu

Website: https://centerforaod.sdsu.edu/staff/hohman.html

Melinda (Mindy) Hohman, Ph.D., MSW, is a Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at San Diego State University. Dr. Hohman teaches courses in substance abuse treatment, research, Motivational Interviewing, and social work practice. Dr. Hohman has published numerous articles on the topics of Motivational Interviewing, substance abuse assessment and treatment services and women’s issues in this area. She has been a trainer in Motivational Interviewing (MI) since 1999, training community social workers, Child Protection workers, probation officers, and addiction counselors across Southern California and in other states. She is the author of the book, Motivational Interviewing in Social Work Practice. Dr. Hohman annually teaches a study abroad course on substance abuse and harm reduction, in Dublin, Ireland.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs

DIRECTOR OF PRACTICE IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION, NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Email: dhrouda@neomed.edu

Focus on the implementation of evidence-based, best, and emerging practices for people along the continuum of justice involvement.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Gender and Sexuality
• Restorative Justice
• Jails and Prisons
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Decarceration

EDITOR 

Email: russimmarigeon@fairpoint.net

Editor of national publications on community corrections, alternatives to prison, and offender programming. Editor of four books on crime desistance, prisoner reentry, and women, gender and girls in the criminal justice system. Independent researcher on the overuse of incarceration for women and others, and of cash bail in pretrial settings

Topic Areas:

• Abolition
• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Gender and Sexuality
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry
• Restorative Justice

PROVOST & VICE PRESIDENT OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, NIAGARA UNIVERSITY

Email: toi@niagara.edu

The primary area of my research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of family violence (intimate partner violence and maltreatment), including the role of drugs and alcohol as both predictors of family violence as well as coping mechanisms for those exposed.

In addition, other health consequences of exposure to violence are under consideration including engaging in risky sex behaviors during adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Health and/or Mental Health

DOCTORAL STUDENT, BROWN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS

Email: ashley.jackson@wustl.edu

Website: https://sites.wustl.edu/ajackson/

Ashley Jackson is a doctoral student at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis where her research focuses on police violence and racial and legal socialization. She earned a BS in Administration of Justice from George Mason University in 2009 and an MSW from the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration in 2011. Ashley was a funded by the 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct research in Cali, Colombia where she explored how local NGOs support vulnerable communities impacted by conflict and violence. Prior to moving to Colombia, Ashley worked at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) in New York. At LISC she provided support to communities across the country helping to address public safety issues and improve community-police relations. During her time at Vera, she conducted mixed-methods criminal justice research focusing on youth experiences during and post- incarceration and youth experiences interacting with the police in New York.

Topic Areas:

• Community-Police Relations
• Racial and Legal Socialization
• Community Violence
• Incarceration and Familial Impact
• Participatory Action Research
• Race/Racism

JD/PhD STUDENT, UC IRVINE

Email: bryantjj@uci.edu

Website: https://sites.uci.edu/bryantjacksongreen/

Bryant Jackson-Green is a doctoral student in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine and a JD candidate at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. His research lies at the intersection of criminal justice policy and organizational theory, focusing on how organizations perceive and make decisions about social risk. Using mixed methods, his work highlights the importance of law and organizations in a larger social-ecological context.

Topic Areas:

• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Email: leahjacobs@pitt.edu

Website: https://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/people/leah-jacobs

My research interests include: socio-structural risk factors for criminal justice involvement; the role of neighborhood qualities in contributing to arrests among people with mental health and substance use problems; the provision of mental health and substance abuse treatment in jails; and reentry programs that seek to decrease recidivism among individuals with mental health and substance abuse problems.

Topic Areas: 

• Mental Health
• Restorative Justice
• Reentry
• Jails and Prisons
• Policy and Courts

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Email: nevjones@pitt.edu

Website: https://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/people/nev-jones

Interests include policing and the role of police in mental health crisis response, mental health courts, peer-led diversion and re-entry programs and critical perspectives on abolition and decarceration. Research centers those with direct experience of psychiatric disabilities and/or intersectional experiences of systems involvement.

 Topic Areas:

• Abolition
• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts

Email: ekawam@gmail.com

I have my bachelors, masters, and doctorate in social work which is my true passion. My main area of work has concerned on children, youth, and families in the areas of poverty, violence, substance use, abuse, and child welfare. Motivated by my experiences in child welfare, most of my work recently has been specific to mothers, trauma, and PTSD. Specifically, examining the mediating and moderating influences that attachment and the social environment have on family stability, trauma symptomology, and overall resiliency. I also have extensive experience in mezzo and macro aspects of social work including communities, policy, advocacy, grant writing, teaching, and research. I am an Associate Professor of social work and in my free time enjoy hiking, yoga, cooking, reading and spending time with my pets/family. Please feel free to reach out to me at anytime with questions, comments, or collaborations.

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Restorative Justice
• Gender and Sexuality

DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR, EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Email: jkellman@emich.edu 

Website: https://www.emich.edu/chhs/social-work/faculty/j_kellman-fritz.php

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Reentry

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

Email: kerrison@berkeley.edu

Website: http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/faculty/erin-kerrison

My research and teaching interests extend from a legal epidemiological framework, wherein law and legal institutions operate as social determinants of health. Specifically, through varied agency partnerships, my mixed-method research agenda investigates the impact that compounded structural disadvantage, concentrated poverty and state supervision has on service delivery, substance abuse, violence and other health outcomes for individuals and communities marked by criminal justice intervention.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Juvenile Justice
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Community Involvement
• Policy and Courts
• Gender and Sexuality
• Restorative Justice
• Jails and Prisons
• Health/ Mental Health
• Decarceration

PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA

Email: Peter.Kindle@usd.edu

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/usd.edu/peter-a-kindle-p/

I taught inside a Texas prison for six years while completing my doctorate in social work, then spent over a year volunteering with the Second Chance Program of the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission before locating my current faculty position in South Dakota. I am expecting to conduct a program evaluation for the Carver County jail’s new mental health program over the next two years.

Topic Areas:

• Health and/or Mental Health
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Email: karen.kolivoski@howard.edu

Website: https://www.karenkolivoski.com  and https://twitter.com/KKolivoski

My research interests focus on crossover youth, specifically on understanding how factors in children and youths’ experiences within the child welfare system impact subsequent juvenile and criminal justice system involvement. I am especially interested in understanding the role of out of home placements within the child welfare system, youths’ relationships and perceptions of their child welfare caseworkers, and sibling and family influences as related to criminal justice outcomes. I also have interest and experience in transfer of youths to the adult system and juvenile life without parole, including the misconduct/experiences of youth in prisons. In regards to teaching, I teach in the criminal justice field of practice specialization in the MSW program at Howard University.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Restorative Justice

RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATIONS

Email: liat.kriegel@gmail.com

Website: https://www.bhinnovations.org/

I am broadly interested in the intersection of the behavioral health and criminal justice systems. My research explores the roles of public space and public space interactions in the community reentry of individuals with mental illness leaving prison. I am interested in understanding both conceptions and use of public space as well as the different types of connections people make in those spaces, with an eye toward understanding social and spatial indicators of recidivism, community integration, social isolation, and ontological security. I am also involved in research focused on opioid use prevention, treatment and recovery in rural communities.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Jails and Prisons
• Health/ Mental Health
• Co-Occurring Disorders

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Brown School of Washington University in St. Louis

Email: hlateef@wustl.edu

Website: https://brownschool.wustl.edu/faculty-and-research/husain-lateef/

Dr. Husain Lateef’s research intersects with his practice experience working with serious juvenile offenders by advancing scholarship to inform reentry for this population post-conviction. His scholarship also examines issues related to misattributions of criminal risk to ethnic minority populations with implications for reentry policy. He teaches courses related to preparing social work students to work with criminal justice-involved adults, forensic social work practice & criminal justice policy & interventions.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Reentry
• Race/Racism

 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

Email: lhlee@ua.edu

Website: https://socialwork.ua.edu/blog/social-theme-staff/lee-lewis-phd/

Dr. Lewis Hyukseung Lee has experience working with incarcerated adults and with youth who have come in contact with the criminal justice system. Prior to joining Pitt’s doctoral program, he worked as the Assistant Director for the Korean Community Center in Englewood, New Jersey, where he provided community services for immigrant minorities. His research interests include social policy in the criminal justice system, criminal desistance, mental health disparities and service use, substance use, community-based participatory research, macro practice.

Topic Areas:

• Community-Based Participatory Research
• Criminal Justice Reform
• Macro Practice
• Mental Health
• Social Policy in Criminal Justice System
• Substance Abuse

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON 

Email: chlea@uh.edu

Website: https://uh.edu/socialwork/about/faculty-directory/charles-lea/

Dr. Lea joined the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work in July 2019 as an Assistant Professor. His research and scholarship investigate the intersectionality of race/ethnicity, class, and gender in educational, correctional, and neighborhood contexts, and the impact these issues have on the health and well-being of young Black men and boys at risk and involved in the juvenile and criminal punishment systems. The overarching aims of this work is to develop knowledge and build theory that informs policies, practices, and interventions that can promote resilience and healthy development among young Black men and boys’, as well as lessen their risk for health-compromising behaviors, arrest, incarceration, and recidivism.

Topic Areas:

• Abolition
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Gender and Sexuality
• Health/Mental Health
• Jail and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry
• Race/Racism
• Restorative Justice

PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK, BARRY UNIVERSITY

Email: jlevenson@barry.edu

Website: https://www.barry.edu/social-work/faculty/bios/jlevenson.html

I study the effectiveness of sexual offender registries in reducing recidivism, as well as the impact of registration on offenders and communities. My research fits in the larger context of collateral sanctions of criminal sentencing and its impact on employment, housing, social support, psychosocial risk factors, and successful reintegration. I also study the relationship between childhood adversity and adult criminality, and the need for trauma-informed treatment and re-entry services for offenders.

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

Email: pblogang@buffalo.edu

Website: https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/faculty-research/full-time-faculty/pblogang.html

Interest areas include victimization and perpetration of violence, juvenile justice, violence against women, child maltreatment, adverse childhood experiences, and violence prevention.

Topic Areas:

• Gender and Sexuality
• Juvenile Justice

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Email: cburry@ssw.umaryland.edu

I have a child welfare background and an ongoing interest in parental incarceration, particularly maternal incarcerated, and the children of incarcerated parents. Additionally, I have a focus on smart decarceration and alternative sentencing.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Health/Mental health
• Gender and Sexuality
• Decarceration

BSW PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MADONNA UNIVERSITY

Email: kmarks@madonna.edu

Dr. Kelli Marks is the BSW Program Director in Social Work. Kelli joined the full time faculty of Madonna University in 2016 and has a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan (2000) with an emphasis in interpersonal practice and children and youth and received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Oakland University in 2015. Her research focused on the importance of student engagement of academic outcomes, concentrating on minority male achievement.

Kelli worked previously in juvenile justice before entering adult corrections and was employed as a corrections officer with female inmates for several years; she also has 15 years of experience working with adult felons in Oakland County.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry
• Community Involvement
• Policy and Courts
• Health/Mental Health

Assistant Professor

Email: phillip.marotta@wustl.edu

Website: https://brownschool.wustl.edu/faculty-and-research/phillip-marotta/

My research examines the role of the criminal justice system in structuring inequities in overdose, substance use and HIV infection.

Topic Areas:

• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Policy and Courts
• Race/Racism

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Email: jmate@ku.edu

Website: http://socwel.ku.edu/people/faculty/matejkowski-jason

Research interests include policies and services involving adults with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system or who are homeless.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drug
• Community Involvement
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND DEPARTMENT CHAIR, SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT LEHMAN COLLEGE (CUNY)

Email: carl.maaza@lehman.cuny.edu

Website: https://www.lehman.edu/academics/health-human-services-nursing/social-work/faculty-mazza.php

Dr. Mazza has written on incarcerated fathers, children of incarcerated parents, prison education, practicing social work in prison, and various issues regarding reentry. He has recently completed a book on fatherhood in the U.S. and has a chapter on incarcerated fathers. He is the former track chair of the Criminal & Juvenile Justice Track for the Council on Social Work Education. He is currently researching and writing a book on social work with exonerated people.

Topic Areas:

• Prisons and Jails
• Reentry
• Community Involvement
• Policy and Courts
• Restorative Justice
• Health/Mental Health

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Email: hmccoy@uic.edu

Website: https://socialwork.uic.edu/profiles/henrika-mccoy/

www.henrikamccoy.com

My research primarily focuses on the intersection of juvenile delinquency and mental health particularly for African American males. I have been previously funded by the Fahs Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation to explore the how to strengthen mental health screening for juvenile offenders and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Program to address the negative trajectories of juvenile delinquency and promote the mental health of juvenile offenders. I am currently the principal investigator of the National Institute of Justice funded study, Understanding the Violent Victimization Experiences of Young Men of Color. The cooperative agreement is a 3-year, national study funded in the amount of $1.5 million. The project will fill the gap in our knowledge base about the violent victimization experiences of young Black males ages 18 to 24 by: 1) creating and pilot testing an instrument that measures such experiences, 2) identifying their awareness and use of services, and 3) learning about the coping skills and types of supports they use.

Topic Areas:

• Health and/or Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, JANE ADDAMS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Email: bmcleod7@uic.edu

Website: https://socialwork.uic.edu/profiles/branden-a-mcleod/

My research examines the intersection between fatherhood and the criminal justice system. I endeavor unpack how the criminal justice system potentially attenuates the role of fathers and the factors that mitigate, sustain, and strengthen paternal involvement and family well-being. I teach social welfare, social policy analysis and advocacy, and research methods.

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Jails and Prisons
• Restorative Justice

CLINICAL FACULTY, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

Email: imedina@luc.edu

Website: https://www.luc.edu/socialwork/aboutus/facultystaff/medinaivan.shtml

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement

LCSW, USC

Email: louisiana.medina@gmail.com

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry
• Restorative Justice

PhD STUDENT

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Email: mcommodo@iu.edu

Doing research on trauma and trauma informed care in the juvenile justice system.

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice
• Restorative Justice

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS BROWN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Email: vnebbitt@wustl.edu

Website: https://brownschool.wustl.edu/Faculty-and-Research/Pages/Von-Nebbitt.aspx

Von Nebbit’s practice and research experiences are in the areas of urban African American children and youth, with a primary research agenda of increasing empirical and theoretical knowledge of the effects of living in urban public housing on minority adolescents’ health and well-being. His research assesses how exposure to community and household violence, peer networks, and social cohesion and belonging are related to the mental, behavioral and physical health of adolescents.

In addition, Nebbitt authored the book “Adolescents in Public Housing: Addressing Psychological and Behavioral Health,” a first volume to use data collected from youth in public housing living multiple U.S. cities. His research has garnered support from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Silberman Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.

Topic Areas: 

• African American Youth
• Public Housing
• Delinquency
• High risk youth behavior

PhD, VNU-UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Email: maiphivn@yahoo.com

I am interested in crime and delinquency, and have been studied violent behaviours for years, mostly students’ violent conducts including bullying at school, and domestic violence. I am working to find a way to establish the presence of social work in justice system in Vietnam, firstly for juvenile justice.

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Juvenile Justice
• Restorative Justice

DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY VIOLENCE STUDIES

Email: koehme@fsu.edu

Website: http://familyvio.csw.fsu.edu

My research interests include law and policy on child protection and intimate partner violence (IPV), law enforcement officer-perpetrated IPV, and suicide prevention research and training.

Topic Areas:

• Policy and Courts

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY

Email: eonifade@cau.edu

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry

PROFESSOR, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY HOUSTON CAMPUS

Email: Danielle_Parrish@baylor.edu

Website: https://www.baylor.edu/social_work/index.php?id=954327

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Juvenile Justice
• Gender and Sexuality

DOCTORAL STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Email: oluwayomi@uga.edu

My research interests include reentry programs, interventions, and services for women transitioning from incarceration to the community.

Topic Areas:

• Gender and Sexuality
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Race/Racism
• Reentry

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY, WALDEN UNIVERSITY

Website: https://www.waldenu.edu/about/faculty/meet-our-faculty/member-profile/gregory-perkins3

Topic Areas:

• Health and/or Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts

LMSW, ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE

Email: awalke68@vols.utk.edu

Ashley Pennell is a Licensed Master Social Worker in Knoxville, TN. She is an adjunct instructor at the University of Tennessee teaching bachelors and masters level forensic social work courses. Her work experience is primarily in social work in public defense settings, jail based therapy, victim advocacy, and re-entry services. She is particularly interested in the intersection of trauma, poverty, and incarceration.

Topic Areas

• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, FOUNDING DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Email: c.pettus@fsu.edu

Website: https://csw.fsu.edu/person/carrie-pettus

Dr. Carrie Pettus is Associate Professor of Social Work at Florida State University and Founding Executive Director of the Institute for Justice Research and Development. Pettus conducts applied research on smart decarceration of prisons and jails through policy and practice intervention development. Pettus generates research on ameliorating racial, economic, and behavioral health disproportionality. She works with community partners to develop interventions to enhance positive social support, treat trauma experiences and behavioral health disorders, and generate well-being for those impacted by criminal justice involvement. Dr. Pettus holds a doctorate in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Decarceration
• Gender and Sexuality
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry
• Race/Racism

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DIRECTOR OF FIELD INSTRUCTION IN SOCIAL WORK, MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY

Email: pilkinton@soc.msstate.edu

Melinda W. Pilkinton is an Assistant Professor and Director of Field Instruction in Social Work. She earned a B.A. degree in social work from Mississippi State University in 1975, a Masters in Social Work from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1976, and a Ph.D. in social work from Jackson State University in 2007. She has taught a variety of social work courses at MSU since 1999. Additionally, she has worked as a Clinical Social Worker in the fields of mental health, substance abuse, supervision & administration, nursing home consultation, and school social work for over 30 years. She is a gubernatorial appointee to the Mississippi Board of Examiner for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists and is active in the Association of Social Work Boards. Her research interests include military families, mental health and substance abuse issues, and social welfare policy.

Topic Areas:

• Health and/or Mental Health
• Alcohol and Drugs

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS

Email: mpplassm@uark.edu

My research broadly focuses on the criminal justice system with an emphasis on drug policy and policies that impact people with criminal histories.
I teach social welfare policy and political advocacy courses that focus on local, national, and global economic and social issues while making sure to emphasize the role of drug policy and criminal justice policy in exacerbating these issues. I also helped develop a drug policy class that will be part of our new substance use minor. Lastly, I advocate for increased involvement in the political process for social workers and the socially and economically marginalized communities they serve, particularly people who use drugs and/or have criminal histories.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Rentry

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY

Email: brownhillnevis@gmail.com 

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Restorative Justice

PROFESSOR, SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY

Email: lisa.rapp-mccall@saintleo.edu

Website: https://www.saintleo.edu/faculty-bios/lisa-rapp-mccall

My research expertise includes: juvenile crime and violence, child abuse, school violence, human trafficking, and prevention, as well as program evaluation.

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Pronouns: she/they

Email:jacobarock@boisestate.edu

Jacoba Rock is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Boise State School of Social Work. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies, with a doctoral minor in Criminology, from Pennsylvania State University in 2021. She received a Master of Social Work degree, with a clinical concentration in work with High-Risk Youth in 2010, and a graduate certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution in 2008, both from the University of Denver. Dr. Rock’s research focuses on the developmental consequences of childhood trauma, including biological, cognitive, and social contributions, for individuals involved in the juvenile and criminal justice systems, and related intervention opportunities for incarcerated juveniles and young adults. She leads an assessment and intervention study at a Department of Corrections facility which houses young adult offenders, testing the use of a staff empathy training and implementation of a mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral intervention. Prior research has focused on restorative practices in juvenile correctional facilities, and systemic disparities in response to parole violations. Dr. Rock maintains social work licensure in Colorado, Idaho, and Pennsylvania, where she continues to assess a small number of clients serving life without parole sentences for crimes convicted as juveniles, and provide court testimony in these cases; this work began in 2012, following the Miller v. Alabama Supreme Court ruling which held that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juveniles. Her work has focused on collaborating with attorneys and other criminal justice advocates to encourage the use of social science research which supports resentencing efforts and service access for incarcerated young people. Before 2012, Dr. Rock worked for several years in the child welfare system, as an assessment specialist and caseworker. Between her undergraduate and graduate training, she was also the program coordinator for a restorative justice program based at a police department. She went on to facilitate psychoeducational groups for young adult offenders, primarily those with substance use and anger management related needs. Dr. Rock’s courses include program evaluation, clinical practice courses, cognitive behavioral therapy, group treatment, restorative approaches, child and adolescent trauma, adolescent development, social welfare policy, and juvenile delinquency and youth violence. Dr. Rock serves on the HEAL-PA Trauma Consultation / Criminal Justice Action Team, Pennsylvania Re-Entry Council, and the Pennsylvania Office of Advocacy and Reform 21st Century Solutions think tank.

Topic Areas:

• Abolition
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry
• Race/Racism
• Restorative Justice

MSW/PHD STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

Email: taylorashlyn@ucla.edu 

I’m particularly interested in how environmental factors that are at play once individuals are no longer incarcerated affect the success of reentry programs, and how re-entry programs address these exposures. The focus of my research will center around identifying success and weaknesses in existing re-entry programs and highlighting data-backed modifications to these programs to bolster a successful transition back into society. My research will also include studying minority youth in urban neighborhoods and how exposure to violence (both frequency and type) affect their incarceration rates. This work can hopefully be adapted to study other social and environmental factors in order to better understand which experiences are most associated with juvenile incarceration. My work will allow for policy makers and stakeholders to comprehensively understand what occurs in these neighborhoods and identify vulnerable areas that can serve as intervention points to help protect these at-risk youth.

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice
• Race/Racism
• Reentry

PHD STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Email: aas6@illinois.edu

Allison Salisbury (she/her/hers), MSW, is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Social Work. Her research interests include criminal justice content in the social work curriculum.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Decarceration
• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry 

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Email: sophia.sarantakos@du.edu

Website: https://socialwork.du.edu/about/gssw-directory/sophia-sarantakos 

Dr. Sarantakos’ current research focuses on contributing to the advancement of community-based approaches to harm and need, as well as exploring the future of radical social change work. They are questioning how the “profession” of social work can directly and effectively connect to the work of large-scale social movements and advance their aims. Along with teaching the foundation course “Integrated Social Work Practice for Social Justice,” Dr. Sarantakos is in their third year of teaching an “Introduction to Prison-Industrial Complex Abolition” course for MSW students.

Topic Areas:

• Abolition

LECTURER, SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY

Email: megan.schlegel@sjsu.edu

Website: https://www.sjsu.edu/justicestudies/our-department/faculty-and-staff/schlegel-m/index.html

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry

PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Email: css2109@columbia.edu

Website: https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/full-time/craig-s-schwalbe/

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Juvenile Justice

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Email: jshannon@umbc.edu

Currently teaching in the undergraduate policy sequence at the University of Maryland Baltimore County School of Social Work, I have been asked by administrative staff to consider designing a policy course bridging social welfare policy with criminal justice policy. Prior to retiring from the Mongomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation after more than twenty five years of service, I had routinely supervised social work interns, undergrads and grads, in the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. Most of my work was in Reentry at the Montgomery County Pre-Release Center.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Email: shannon.sliva@du.edu

Website: https://socialwork.du.edu/about/gssw-directory/shannon-marie-sliva

Shannon Sliva is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, where she conducts leading research on restorative and collaborative approaches to justice which challenge current criminal legal models. Her work questions the efficacy of courts and prisons as mechanisms of justice and considers the role of dialogue and shared experiences in transforming people and systems. Sliva tracks state-level restorative justice legislation across the U.S., and is currently partnering with Colorado practitioners, policymakers and advocates to document the impacts of leading-edge restorative justice laws and develop recommendations for policy transfer. Most recently, Sliva’s research team – in partnership with Sterling Correctional Facility in the Colorado Department of Corrections – joined the Urban Institute’s Prison Innovation and Research Network, a six state consortium to test transformative innovations in correctional facilities. Sliva is also the Director of Research for the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative, where she oversees evaluation of DU PAI’s arts-based workshops and public performances.

Topic Areas:

• Jails and Prisons
• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Policy and Courts
• Restorative Justice

DIRECTOR AND UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Email: dwspringer@austin.utexas.edu

Website: https://rgkcenter.org/team/david-w-springer-phd

Dr. Springer is the Director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin. He works with community and nonprofit leaders toward sustainable solutions on a wide range of issues, particularly at the intersection of criminal and juvenile justice, community resilience, and neighborhood revitalization. His work spans direct practice, policy practice, community building, nonprofit management, system reform, research, and leadership.

Topic Areas:

• Criminal and Juvenile Justice
• Nonprofit and Community Leadership
• Positive Youth Development
• Mental Health

PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS – SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Email: kstauss@uark.edu

I have collaborated on the development of letter-writing program to help incarcerated parents reconnect with their children. We have completed research on this program and tried to disseminate this program in both community and departmental correctional facilities.

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry
• Gender and Sexuality

DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR

THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

Pronouns: he/him/his

Email: matthew.theriot@ucf.edu

Website: https://healthprofessions.ucf.edu/socialwork

My research focuses on school violence, with a specific emphasis on school safety and security.

Topic Areas:

• Juvenile Justice

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Email: ctt19@pitt.edu

Website: https://www.socialwork.pitt.edu/people/christopher-thyberg

My research is heavily informed by my clinical experience as a therapist working with children, adolescents, and families. Many of my clients had exposure to traumatic experiences, which profoundly impacted their mental and behavioral health. Through my work, I observed how schools played a pivotal role in the process of helping or harming students, often criminalizing behaviors instead of seeking to provide support or ask questions. I saw how schools act as an access point to the criminal legal system for many students who were sent to court, fined, charged, or otherwise punished. Moreover, I witnessed how often this occurred differentially based on race, class, gender, ability as various forms of oppression and discrimination impacted these students’ experiences. This informs my research, as I am passionate about finding ways to break the pathway between schools and incarceration through restorative justice, transformative justice, and anti-oppressive practices of mental health and community support initiatives. My dissertation is focused on building anti-racist and critical consciousness professional development for teachers within school spaces that are using restorative justice to further address racial disparities in exclusionary school discipline. This process has also had an impact on my teaching and inspired my passion for critical and structural social work as my paradigm of practice and teaching

Topic Areas:

• Health/Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Race/Racism
• Restorative Justice

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, TOYO UNIVERSITY

Email: hirokitoi.sw@gmail.com

Website: http://ris.toyo.ac.jp/profile/en.49ce7e9f9582deae7ed49a595b30efe8.html

Hiroki Toi, PhD, MSW is an Associate Professor at Toyo University in Japan, where he teaches criminal justice, human rights and social work for undergraduate students. Hiroki’s research primarily focuses on better understanding the professional values and conflict among forensic social workers. Hiroki worked as a research assistant for the Connecticut State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and has practiced in forensic psychiatric hospital, prison hospital, and also served as a social work advisor at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. Hiroki’s scholarship and teaching aim to build the capacity of the social work profession to address challenges and opportunities in the field of criminal justice and community-based social work practice.

Topic Areas:

• Abolition
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Community Involvement
• Decarceration
• Health/Mental Health
• Jails and Prisons
• Juvenile Justice
• Policy and Courts
• Reentry

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Email: ctoner@fordham.edu

Website:  https://www.fordham.edu/info/25437/gss_adjunct_faculty_profiles/10352/christine_toner

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Health and/or Mental Health
• Juvenile Justice
• Gender and Sexuality

CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR, CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PEDIATRICS, BROWN ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL

Email: jtwomey@wihri.org

Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jtwomeyp

Dr. Twomey has extensive clinical experience in early childhood. She provides therapy to children and their families through the Behavior and Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Clinics at the Women and Infants Center for Children and Families. She has worked with families affected by perinatal substance use through research, program development and treatment. Her research interests include parenting abilities of substance-using women, developmental outcomes of substance-exposed infants with child welfare involvement, and the impact of infant behavioral difficulties on parental mental health. Dr. Twomey has been involved on longitudinal studies examining prenatal substance exposure and child outcomes. She was co-principal investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant examining families who participated in the RI Family Treatment Drug Court. In 2010, she was named Social Worker of the Year in Children & Families by the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs

PROFESSOR EMIRITA OF SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA

Email: katherine.vanwormer@uni.edu

Website: https://csbs.uni.edu/socialwork/faculty-staff-directory/katherine-vanwormer-phd

Blog Posts:

Dr. van Wormer is the author or co-author of 15 books (not counting new editions), including Death by Domestic Violence: Preventing the Murders and the Murder-Suicides. Some of her recent books are: Confronting Oppression, Restoring Justice: From Policy Analysis to Social Action (2nd ed.) (co-authored by L .Kaplan and C. Juby) (CSWE, 2012); The Maid Narratives (LSU Press, 2012); Restorative Justice Today (SAGE, 2013); Women and the Criminal Justice System (co-authored with C. Bartollas) (Pearson, 2014); Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future (SAGE, 2016), Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level and HBSE, Macro Level (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective (4th ed.) (co-authored with D.R. Davis) (Cengage, 2018). Van Wormer is currently working on a 5th edition of Women and the Criminal Justice System.

Topic Areas:

• Alcohol and Drugs
• Gender and Sexuality
• Jails and Prisons
• Race/Racism
• Restorative Justice

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & PhD DIRECTOR NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Email: vvaughan-eden@nsu.edu

Website: http://violavaughaneden.com

Viola Vaughan-Eden is Associate Professor and PhD Program Director with the Ethelyn R. Strong School of Social Work at Norfolk State University in Southeastern Virginia. She is also the co-founder of The UP Institute, a think tank for upstream child abuse solutions. As a clinical and forensic social worker, she serves as a consultant and expert witness in child maltreatment cases – principally sexual abuse. Dr. Vaughan-Eden is Past-President of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work, President Emerita of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, and President Emerita of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence. She lectures nationally and internationally on child and family welfare to multidisciplinary groups of professionals. Dr. Vaughan-Eden serves on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals. She is the recipient of several honors including the 2020 NOFSW Sol Gothard Lifetime Achievement Award, a 2019 Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) Leadership Scholar, and the 2012 NASW-Virginia Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award.

Topic Area:

• Health/Mental Health

MSW, DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Email: dwashington5@uchicago.edu

Durrell Malik Washington Sr. is a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice. He takes an interdisciplinary approach towards scholarship drawing from social work, sociological, criminological, life course, and family system theories and perspectives. Durrell’s research interest lies at the intersections in P.I.C. Abolition, Juvenile legal practice and policy, Social Networks, Families and Other Social Context. Specifically, Durrell is a Mixed Method Researcher whose research agenda is geared at understanding the impact of juvenile incarceration on family life and youths transition to adulthood. Durrell has methodological training across several different qualitative and quantitative methods. have served as both a Research Assistant and Project Manager during his time at the Crown Family School and prior to his doctoral training, at Columbia University. To date, he has published a combination of several co- and solo-authored peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and currently has a number of other peer-reviewed articles under review. Because our work as social workers do not just reach academics but also community and policy audiences as well, he has also published several other public-facing products, including research reports, op-eds, editorials, and news articles.

Topic Areas:

• Abolition
• Community Involvement
• Juvenile Justice
• Reentry
• Race/Racism

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

Email: twike@vcu.edu

Website: https://www.socialwork.vcu.edu/about/our-team/traci-wike-phd.html

Traci Wike, Ph.D., has been a faculty member at the school since 2011. Her primary area of research focuses on youth experiences of violence, specifically peer-related bullying, victimization, and harassment. A central goal of her research is to identify critical factors to increase resilience and promote healthy social-emotional outcomes for children and youth, especially youth from vulnerable populations. She has conducted work on the effects of social emotional learning on children’s aggression and social competence as well as interpersonal influences on girls’ choices to engage in delinquency. In her current work, she is involved with two studies examining peer, family, and community experiences of LGBTQ+ youth and how they influence positive well-being for this population. In addition, Wike has conducted research and published in the area of evidence-based practice and evidence-supported interventions, and how they are translated into social work practice. Her teaching interests include courses in research methods, community and organizational practice, social welfare policy, and social justice. Prior to her appointment at VCU, Wike worked as a social research associate for a large, federally-funded study on child maltreatment, and also as a practitioner providing services to LGBTQ+ youth and leading trainings on issues specific to this population for community professionals.

Topic Areas:

• Gender and Sexuality 

DIRECTOR FOR FACULTY RESEARCH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Email: lwindsor@illinois.edu

Website: www.newarkccb.org

Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Ph.D., MSW is the Director of Faculty Research and Associate Professor at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Social Work. Her research focuses on the application of critical consciousness theory to the development of multi-level interventions designed to reduce health inequalities related to substance use disorders, including HIV infection and incarceration in marginalized communities. Dr. Windsor follows community based participatory research (CBPR) principles and utilizes a variety of scientific methodologies including ethnography, randomized experimental controlled trials, measurement development, meta-analysis, and online survey. Dr. Windsor is the founder and chair of the Newark Community Collaborative Board, a group of researchers, service providers, and consumers developed Community Wise, a multilevel intervention designed to reduce substance use frequency, criminal offending, and health risk behaviors. Dr. Windsor has overseen numerous research studies in the United States and in Brazil. Currently, she is principal investigator of the Community Wise Optimization study (R01 funded by NIMHD) and its administrative supplements. Dr. Windsor is also a co-investigator in the Social Action in Rural Communities Study, an Avant Guarde research award from NIDA to Dr. Dolores Albarracin. Finally, Dr. Windsor is a RWJ Health Policy fellow at the National Academy of Medicine. Her teaching interests include research methods, social justice, and substance use disorders. Born and raised in Brazil, she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Education from FCH-FUMEC, Brazil in 1998. She moved to Texas in 2000 to pursue her Master of Science and doctoral degrees in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin.

Topic Areas:

• Reentry
• Alcohol and Drugs
• Community Involvement
• Health and/or Mental Health

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL WORK

Email: hzy@pitt.edu

Website: http://crsp.pitt.edu/person/hidenori-yamatani-phd-msw

As the Pitt School of Social Work’s associate dean for research, Yamatani oversees sponsored research, training, and service projects; provides proposal-development assistance for external funding; promotes interdisciplinary research projects; enhances scholarly research and activities; and facilitates faculty mentoring. A full professor, his research specialties include organizational development, strategic planning, program optimization and evaluation, and community research. Yamatani directs Pitt’s Community Enhancement Research Network (CERN), which promotes community development through collaborative applied social work research. CERN includes faculty from the social work school and other Pitt units as well as non-Pitt researchers and community stakeholders.

Topic Areas:

• Community Involvement
• Jails and Prisons
• Reentry