Graduate Research Assistant

Lina Marmolejo is a doctoral student and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Criminology, Law and Society Department at George Mason University. Prior to starting the doctoral program, she worked as a citizen security specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She has more than a decade of experience designing, managing and implementing international development projects, with an emphasis on crime prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean countries.

Degrees

• Master of Science in Public Administration (MPA), Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Paris.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance and International Relations, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogota.

Research Interests

• International criminal justice and security sector reform
• Pre-trial detention
• Corrections
• Rehabilitation and reentry programs
• Alternatives to incarceration.