Sarah M. Manchak is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behavior with concentrations in experimental psychopathology and psychology and the law from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. Prior to that, she earned her MA in forensic psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Maddy Lancaster is a master's student in the school of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. She received her bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Xavier University in the spring of 2018. Her interests broadly include improving and informing correctional policy and reform through evidence-based practices and research. Specifically, she is interested in studying the impacts of correctional policies on offender reentry, mental health, substance abuse, and inmate incarceration experiences. Additionally, she is interested in research regarding school shootings and effective response management in the case of active shooter incidents.

Symone Pate is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati studying criminal justice. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Cincinnati. Her interests are sentencing and punishment, institutional and community corrections, human trafficking, and juvenile justice.

Sarah Light is a current doctoral student in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Criminal Justice as well as her Masters in Criminal Justice at Grand Valley State University. Her research interests include offender reentry and, more generally, the impact of the criminal justice system on communities.

Esther Scheibler is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a master's degree in Criminal Justice & Criminology from the University of Missouri and a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include religious chaplaincy, prisoner rehabilitation, reentry, and crime and victimization within the Jewish community.

Jordan McCoy is current doctoral student in the Counselor Education and Supervision program at the University of Cincinnati. She received her master's degree in mental health counseling from the University of Cincinnati and her bachelor's degree in psychology at Illinois State University. Her research interest includes offender counseling, reentry services, recidivism, suicide and substance abuse. Jordan is a current licensed therapist in Ohio & Kentucky who has experience counseling federal pre-rial and federal probation clients through a grant with the federal government, along with clients struggling with active addiction within in-patient and outpatient rehabilitation centers, leading weekly anger management group and suicidal ideation. Jordan is currently working on grants to help increase de-escalation. Dissertation topic plans to focus on bridging the gap between mental health services and the offender population.

Pranjali is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She is from India and holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Mumbai University (India), and a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Delhi (India). She received her MS in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2019. Her research interests include sentencing, offender rehabilitation, prisoner reentry, and program evaluation. Additionally, she is interested in corrections research in the Indian context.

Luis Gutierrez is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Bachelor's & Master's degrees in Criminal Justice from California State University-Los Angeles. His research interests broadly include juvenile delinquency, community violence, substance abuse & mental health. More specifically, he is interested in research on justice-involved youth, prescription drug abuse & PTSD.

Eurielle Kiki is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her primary research interests are centered around juvenile risk assessments, victimization experiences of girls and minorities, child welfare, and human trafficking.

Catherine Driver is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (2016) and a Master's in Applied Behavioral Science with a concentration in criminal justice (2020) from Wright State University. Her research interests lie in corrections specifically focusing on offender rehabilitation, prisoner reentry, in-prison programming, and specialty courts.

Francesco DiRienzo is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He received a BA in Psychology from SUNY Geneseo and a MS in Criminal Justice Administration from Niagara University. His current research interests include trajectories of offending, child maltreatment, and addressing mental health within the criminal justice system.

Alison Farringer is a doctoral candidate in Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research seeks to improve management and treatment for individuals with mental illnesses and addiction issues supervised in community corrections systems. Her current projects explore program and policy implementation and fidelity, factors that influence outcomes for probationers with mental illnesses, and the nature of inter-agency collaborations in community corrections. Her dissertation is evaluating the implementation of a new large-scale data collection and reporting policy for specialty courts in the state of Ohio. She received her master's degree in Forensic Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Previously, she earned undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Criminal Justice from University of Cincinnati. She has worked as a practitioner and researcher in a variety of clinical and correctional contexts, including residential and outpatient drug treatment programs, halfway houses, as well as children's and forensic psychiatric hospitals. She currently works as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Council of State Governments Justice Center, where she provides training and technical assistance to reentry programs awarded federal grants under the Second Chance Act.

Bryan Holmes is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida and Master's Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. His research interest revolve around corrections, mental illness, and the intersection between behavior and law. He also co-hosts a podcast on criminal justice research named Criminal Justice Office Hours sponsored by the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice (Subscribe on iTunes). Bryan's dissertation work is examining the effects of extralegal characteristics (i.e. race/ethnicity, gender, and district) on federal sentencing outcomes using almost 2 decades of federal sentencing data. Bryan recently accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position with Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice and will begin there in fall 2022.

Damon Petrich is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has received his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Damon's research interests include developmental/life-course criminology, specifically in the area of desistance from crime, as well as treatment motivation, correctional programming, employment, self-regulation, and identity. Currently, he works with the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute on a variety of corrections evaluation/implementation projects. In the past, he has assisted with/led studies on the developmental trends of serious/violent young offenders, employer experiences with hiring former prisoners, and the in-prison and reintegration experiences of prolific adult offenders. Damon recently accepted a tenure track assistant professor position with the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Loyola University Chicago and will begin there in fall 2022.

Clare Strange is a Postdoctoral Scholar for the Criminal Justice Research Center (CJRC) at Pennsylvania State University. In this role she works on projects of interest to the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (PCS), with a particular focus on racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system. Additionally, Clare implements her own research agenda independently and through collaborations with CJRC and faculty members from the Department of Sociology and Criminology.
Clare received her MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College (2013) and her PhD from the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice (2021). She recently completed a Doctoral Fellowship under Dr. Sheetal Ranjan (William Paterson University), evaluating Jersey Shore University Medical Center's first hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP).
Drawing upon her early career experiences as a reentry social worker, Clare's scholarly interests center on sentencing and corrections and include: (1) the drivers of criminal justice actor decision-making and their implications for punishment and treatment outcomes; (2) justice process and treatment experiences and their contributions to recidivism and health outcomes; and (3) developing, disseminating, and evaluating evidence-based correctional tools. At its core, Clare's research aims to uncover and address the mechanisms that hinder the impartial or effective nature of punishment or treatment interventions with current or formerly justice-involved people. Through her research endeavors Clare has experience designing and conducting quantitative analyses using large administrative data sets and qualitative analyses using interview and focus group data.

Jee Yearn Kim received her Ph.D. in Spring 2022 from the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Brock University (Canada) and Master's Degree in Forensic Psychology from Kyonggi University (S. Korea). Her research interests include psychology of criminal conduct, principles of effective intervention, correctional rehabilitation, violence against women, and related issues. Her dissertation focused on juvenile risk assessment in South Korea.