Develop objectives and design of research and data collection procedures for a collaborative community violence study analyzing the drill rap subculture

• Oversee an evaluative research of program activities for NPEP—a degree-granting higher education program for incarcerated men and women in Illinois. • Develop community-based, participatory, mixed-methods research to create and institutionalize annual surveys and interview protocols for use with students in the program.• Manage IRB approval, data collection and analysis, and report writing with a team of research assistants.

Punishment, Prisons and Corrections, Violence in Society, Criminology 101, Gangs in the Media, Law and Society

Criminology Faculty

• Consulted with Chicago Humanities Festival’s Executive Team to create a community partnership model that is responsible and mutually beneficial. • Engaged South Side community organizations to co-produce a South Shore Day in the summer of 2022 (September 11, 2022).

Support sustained community engagement in order to identify local priorities and establish collaborative partnerships in a cluster of South Side neighborhoods, leading to co-created pilot programming at the end of the first year.

Educational consulting and tutoring.

Juvenile Justice

Research and program evaluation for Safe From The Start (Youth Violence Prevention) and the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault

John Hope College Prep

Assistant Probation Officer, "Breaking Cycles" Unit