Graduate Research Assistant

Lynnea graduated from Rutgers University in 2019. She majored in Psychology and Criminal Justice and minored in Sociology. During her undergraduate studies, she took on a social work internship in a juvenile detention center where her passion for juvenile justice reached new heights. She is now a second-year PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant in the CLS program.

Degrees

• B.A. in Psychology and Criminal Justice (Rutgers University)

Research Interests

• Juvenile justice
• Racial disproportionalities
• Program development and evaluation
• School-to-prison pipeline
• Motivational interviewing

Current Projects

• I.M. Stepping Up which is a national study of county efforts to reduce the occurrence of individuals with mental illness in jail.