Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve Curriculum Vitae

Department of Criminal Justice Temple University [email protected] 1115 Polett Walk www.nicolevancleve.com Philadelphia, PA 19122 Twitter: @nvancleve

Professional Experience

2011-Present Assistant Professor, The Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA with courtesy appointments in the Department of Sociology and The Beasley School of Law

2015-Present Affiliated Research Faculty, The American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL

2006-2010 Research Director, Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, Chicago, IL • Designed and implemented multi-method research efforts for social policy issues that include: Criminal court reform, immigration court reform, and parental involvement in education.

1999-2004 Strategic Brand Planner, Account Executive, Leo Burnett USA, Chicago, IL • Clients included: Walt Disney Corporation (Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line), Procter and Gamble, Polaroid i-Zone, Hallmark Cards, Inc. • Applied sociological and psychological research methods in order to identify the consumer motivations that drive affinity for brands, purchases and sales. • Fielded quantitative and qualitative studies that inspired and identified new consumer insights, trends and demographic shifts that impacted the Disney business. This included: designing research plans, targeting and screening participants, writing discussion guides, analyzing data tabs and coding responses.

Education

2011 Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University Dissertation: “The Racialization of Criminal Justice: The Jim Crow Courts in an Era of Modern Racism.” Committee: John Hagan (Chair), Nicola K. Beisel, Malcolm M. Feeley, Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen

2006 M.A. Sociology, Northwestern University Thesis: “Navigating the Middle Ground of Justice: Public Defenders’ Use of Case and Biographical Analysis in Criminal Defense.” Committee: John Hagan (Chair), Carol Heimer

1999 B.A. Political Science, Minor: Sociology, cum laude Departmental Honors in Political Science Northwestern University

Research Interests

Sociology of Law, Race and Racism, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Culture, Sociology of Professions, Institutions and Organizations, Punishment, Ethnography

Fellowships and Grants 2017 National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences (LSS) Grant, “Law and Social Science Fellowship and Mentoring Program on Law & Inequality.” I.D. 1655497, $429,580 Co-PIs: Traci Burch, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Laura Beth Nielsen, Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve 2014-15 The Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (funding) 2014-15 Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL (in residence) 2015 Temple University, University Sabbatical Committee, Grant-in-Aid for Research: $2,544 2014 Fellow, Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute, Ohio State University 2012-13 Faculty Fellow, Temple University Center for the Humanities (CHAT) 2006-07 Badesch Fellowship, Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice 2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Honorable Mention 2005-2007 Northwestern University Tuition Scholarship 2005, 2006 MacArthur Summer Research Grant 1998 Farrel Grant for Public Policy, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University

Awards and Recognitions

2017 Finalist - C. Wright, The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s (SSSP) C. Wright Mills Book Award for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Winner - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Prize from The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s (SSSP) Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Winner - Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Winner - Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Sociology of Culture Section for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Honorable Mention, Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Race, Class and Gender (RCG) for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Finalist - NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author Category) for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Winner - Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category) for book, “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Winner - Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Winner - Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers for “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Nominee - the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Award - a national recognition of a book advances the public’s understanding of criminal justice, juvenile justice,

child welfare, and adult protection issues for book, “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in American’s Largest Criminal Courts.”

2017 Winner -Distinguished Article Prize presented by the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association for Criminology Article, “The Inter-organizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in the Criminal Justice System.”

2017 Winner - Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award from The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s (SSSP) Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities for “Criminal Justice Through ‘Colorblind’ Lenses: A Call to Examine the Mutual Constitution of Race and Criminal Justice.”

2016 Research Group Award for the program “Public Humanists,” Center for the Humanities at Temple University. Co-Winner, Dustin Kidd, Department of Sociology.

2015 New Scholar Award (co-winner). American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on People of Color and Crime (DPCC). Recognizing an individual who is in the early stages of her or his career and has made significant recent contributions to the literature on race/ethnicity, crime, and justice.

2014 Junior Fellow, Urban Ethnography Project, Yale University

2013 Alternative Textbook Project Award, Temple University Libraries Awarding course and teaching innovation for instruction beyond textbooks.

2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper for “Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney.” Presented by the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association.

2008 Robert F. Winch Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

2007 Friesen Award, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

Academic Publications

Books: Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez. Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court. Stanford University Press. May 2016. Awards: • NAACP Image Award Finalist - Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author o Fellow nominees include Senator Corey Booker and Trevor Noah of the Daily Show • Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s (SSSP) C. Wright Mills Book Award • Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (SREM) • Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Sociology of Culture Section • Honorable Mention for Best Book Prize, from the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Race, Class and Gender. • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Prize from The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s (SSSP) Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities • Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (Current Events/Social Issues category). • Winner of the 2017 Prose Award, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers. o 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 3

o 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies

Refereed Journal Articles: Lara-Millán, Armando and Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. (2017) “The Interorganizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in The Criminal Justice System.” Criminology 55 (1), 59-84. Awards: • 2017 Distinguished Article Prize presented by the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association.

Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez and Lauren Mayes. (2015), “Criminal Justice Through “Colorblind” Lenses: A Call to Examine the Mutual Constitution of Race and Criminal Justice.” Law & Social Inquiry, 40: 406–432. Awards: • 2017 Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award from The Society for the Study of Social Problem’s (SSSP) Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Book Chapters: Van Cleve, Nicole Martorano. “Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate: Multiple Intermediary Roles of the Criminal Defense Attorney” in Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context. (Leslie Levin and Lynn Mather eds., University of Chicago Press, 2012). Awards: • 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper presented by the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association.

Manuscripts in Preparation or Under Editorial Review:

Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez. “Satisfying the Appearance of Justice: A Call for a Consumer Approach to Appraising The Courts” Criminology and Public Policy.

Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez. “Defending by Keeping Their Distance: Use of Biographical Analysis in the Criminal Defense.” Law and Social Inquiry.

Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez. “Promises For-Profit: Commodification of Meaning and Culture in the Marketing of Post-Secondary Education.” The Journal of Consumer Culture.

Media Appearances

2017 Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, “I’m not racist…my grandkids are biracial,” Aug 29, 2017 http://www.philly.com/philly/im-not-racist-my-grandkids-are-biracial-20170829.html

2017 NBC News Commentary, “How Do We Talk to Our Children About White Supremacy?” August 18, 2017 https://www.nbcnews.com/opinion-how-do-we-talk-our-children-about-white-supremacy

2017 Quoted in NPR’s WFPL, “Council Committee Advances Police Chief No-Confidence Measure” August 2, 2017 https://wfpl.org/council-committee-advances-police-chief-no-confidence-measure/

2017 Featured segment NPR “To The Point,” "Can the feds make a dent in Chicago's violent crime epidemic?" July 10, 2017 http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/feds-make-a-dent-in-chicagos-violent-crime

2017 Featured Segment NPR “On Point” “Witnessing And Prosecuting Police Shootings” June 28, 2017 http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/06/28/witnessing-prosecuting-police-shootings

2017 “On Writing in Sociology,” ORGTHEORY.NET April 2017 https://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/on-writing-in-sociology/

2017 Quoted in NBC Latino, “Fatally Shot Black Americans Twice as Likely as Whites to Be Unarmed: Study,” Feb 11, 2017 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/afr-americans-fatally-shot

2017 Featured in Ebony Magazine, “NAACP Image Awards Nominations Luncheon Red Carpet Coverage,” Jan 30, 2017 http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/2017-image-awards

2017 Quoted in Mic, “Trump says he wants to "send in the feds" in Chicago, but that's a historically bad idea,” Jan 25, 2017 https://mic.com/articles/166674/trump-says-he-wants-to-send-in-the-feds-in-chicago

2017 Op-Ed, CNN, “Why Trump's threat to 'send in the Feds' won't help Chicago,” Jan 25, 2017 http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/04/opinions/real-help-for-chicago-van-cleve-opinion/index.html

2017 Featured segment, MPR News (NPR-Local Affiliate, Minnesota), “The number of women in prison is rising. Why?” Jan 10, 2017 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/01/10/rising-rate-of-women-in-prison

2017 Featured on CNN Newsroom, “Chicago Torture Video Released,” Jan 9, 2017 http://www.snappytv.com/tc/3612025

2017 Hour-long, Featured Segment, The Wayne Besen Show, Chicago's Progressive Talk Radio WCPT 820am, “Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve talks Trump, Rahm and Criminal Justice,” Jan 6, 2017 https://soundcloud.com/chicagosprogressivetalk/nicole-gonzalez-van-cleve-talks-trump-rahm-and-chi

2016 Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, “The Trump empathy tour stops here,” Dec 23, 2016 http://www.philly.com/philly/The_Trump_empathy_tour_stops_here.html

2016 Featured Segment, Chicago Tonight on WTTW, PBS Chicago with Phil Ponce, Sept 1, 2016 http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/09/01/crook-county-argues-court-system-racially-biased

2016 Plenary Panelist “Policing and Race Relations: National Association of Black Journalist Plenary Session” CSPAN, Aug 4, 2016 Co-Panelists include: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of Education, John King, DeRay Mckesson, Arthur Reed, Hosts: Joy Reid and Maria Hinajosa https://www.c-span.org/video/policing-race-relations (for segment). For panel in its entirety, see: https://www.c-span.org/video/?413600-1/loretta-lynch-john-king- discuss-policing-race-relations

2016 Hour-long, Featured Segment, The Wayne Besen Show, Chicago's Progressive Talk Radio WCPT 820am August 24, 2016 https://soundcloud.com/chicagosprogressivetalk/author-crook-county-nicole-gonzalez-van-cleve

2016 Featured Segment, The Perri Small Show, WVON 1690AM - The Talk of Chicago, August 19, 2016

2016 Quoted in Mic “Report: After Laquan McDonald shooting, 7 officers may lose their jobs” August 18, 2016 https://mic.com/articles/151948/after-laquan-mc-donald-7-officers-may-lose-their-jobs

2016 Quoted in Vox “The Tyranny of a Traffic Ticket” August 10, 2016 http://www.vox.com/2016/8/5/12364580/police-overcriminalization-net-widening

2016 Featured Segment, The Perri Small Show, WVON 1690AM - The Talk of Chicago, August 8, 2016

2016 Op-Ed, Crain’s Chicago Business, Print and Online Edition “Chicago's Criminal Court System as Flawed as its Police” June 14, 2016 http://www.chicagobusiness.com/OPINION/chicagos-criminal-court-system-as-flawed-as-its-police

2016 Featured on NPR’s Code Switch, “46 Stops: On 'The Driving Life and Death Of Philando Castile'” July 20, 2016 http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/46-stops-on-the-driving-life-and-death-of-philando-castile

2016 Interviewed NPR’s Morning Edition “The Driving Life and Death of Philando Castile”

2016 Quoted in Vice, “How Prosecutors Manufacture Gang Members in California” June 7, 2016 http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/how-prosecutors-manufacture-gang-members

2016 Live Law Event, Life of the Law Podcast, “Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve - Live Law New Orleans: A Scholar's Life” Written and performed by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, June 3, 2016 https://soundcloud.com/lifeofthelaw/nicole-gonzalez-van-cleve-live-law-new-orleans-a-scholars-life

2016 Featured Segment, The Perri Small Show, WVON 1690AM - The Talk of Chicago, May 13, 2016

2016 Featured Segment, The WGN Morning News, “Crook County” May 12, 2016

2016 Features article, NBC Latino, “‘Crook County' Author: Judicial System Stacked Against Blacks, Latinos" May 9, 2016 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/judicial-system-stacked-against-blacks-latinos

2016 Featured Video, NBC News, “Critic of the Court System: ‘It Wasn't Just One Bad Apple, It Was an Entire Culture’” May 6, 2016 http://www.nbcnews.com/video/critic-of-court-system

2016 Featured article, RedEye “18 new books we can't wait to check out in May” May 6, 2016 http://www.redeyechicago.com/artsculture/new-book-releases-may-2016

2016 Book Review by Rob Warden, Chicago Tribune, “'Crook County' investigates racism in Cook County Criminal Court System” April 27, 2016 http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/crook-county-nicole-gonzalez-vancleve

2016 Commentary, The New York Times, Print and Online Edition “Chicago’s Racist Cops and Racist Courts” April 14, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/opinion/chicagos-racist-cops-and-racist-courts.html

2016 Featured Article, Temple University Magazine, “Change Agent” Spring Issue 2016 https://news.temple.edu/sites/news/files/Publications/Temple-Magazine/2016

2016 The Wayne Besen Show, Chicago's Progressive Talk Radio WCPT 820am April 18, 2016 https://soundcloud.com/chicagosprogressivetalk/nicole-gonzalez-van-cleve-talks-crook-county

2016 National Public Radio (NPR) “Source of the Week,” March 19, 2016 http://sourceoftheweek.tumblr.com/nicolegonzalezvancleve

2016 Quoted in the Chicago Tribune, “Woman Faces Mandatory 6 Years in Prison for Kicking Deputy on Shin,” February 9, 2016 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-woman-kicked-deputy-sentencing-met- 20160209-story.html

2016 Featured on CNN’s Newsroom with Poppy Harlow, Segment “Do Chicago Police Need More Oversight?” January 9, 2016 http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1214222

2016 Featured on CNN’s Newsroom with Jim Sciutto, Segment “Chicago Police Under Fire,” January 3, 2016 http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1189240

2015 Featured as cover story on NBC Latino, December 2, 2015 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latina-criminologist-deep-problems-chicagos-police-n472821

2015 Featured on the MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, Segment “Chicago police culture problems run deeper than symbolic firings,” December 1, 2015. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/firings-dont-fix-police-culture-problems- 577615427813

2015 NBC News Commentary, “Anita's Army: Rank and File Racism in the Power to Prosecute,” November 27, 2015 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/commentary-anitas-army-rank-file-racism-power-prosecute- n469731

2014 Front page Op-Ed, Talking Points Memo, “Will Women Bring Down the NFL?” January, 21, 2014 http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/will-women-who-bring-down-the-nfl,

2007 Quoted in Conscious Choice Magazine, in a feature entitled “Criminal Injustice in Cook County,” May 2007.

2007 Profiled in Sociology, 11th edition, by: Richard T. Schaefer, Chapter 7, Mass Media, “Taking Sociology to Work.”

Policy Papers and Reports

2007 “Chicago Appleseed’s Report on Chicago’s Felony Courts.” • A research and advocacy effort jointly conducted by Chicago Appleseed and the Chicago Council of Lawyers.

2007 “Improving Parental Involvement in Illinois Under the No Child Left Behind Act: An Illinois Action Plan.” • Lead author on a report by the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice detailing a “School-Initiated, Parent-Cultivated, and Community Group-Facilitated” model to improve student achievement throughout Illinois. • Presented to the Illinois State Board of Education and Governor’s Illinois Parent Leadership Council.

2006 “It Takes a Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act.”

• A national Appleseed publication written by Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and Appleseed public interest centers in Illinois, Connecticut, Georgia, Texas, and Washington. Led the Illinois portion of this national project. • Report cited in the verbal testimony to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on NCLB Reauthorization: Effective Strategies for Engaging Parents and Communities in Schools, March 28, 2007. Verbal testimony delivered by Anne Henderson, Senior Fellow Community Involvement Program, Annenberg Institute for School Reform. • U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy utilized the report for the drafting of the federal Parent Involvement Bill that he sponsored.

Professional Leadership and Service

2015-Present Elected to Law and Society’s Board of Trustees (Class of 2018). Nominated by current Board of Trustees members. Law and Society Association.

2016-2017 Session Organizer, Regular Sessions on Law and Society for the American Sociological Association's 112th Annual Meeting. Session organizers review and select papers submitted for the session topic and designates a presider and discussants.

2015-2016 Methods Café, Law and Society Meeting, Law and Society Association. Trained other professors in ethnographic methods and critical race theory during the LSA Meeting in round table formats.

2015-2016 Program Committee, 2016 Law and Society Meeting-New Orleans, Law and Society Association. Committee members develop a conference theme, assemble the conference sessions, keynotes, plenary panels, and organize papers into sessions.

2013-2016 Co-chair, Collaborative Research Network on “Critical Research on Race and the Law,” Law and Society Association.

2015 Committee Member/Facilitator, Early-Career Workshop, Law and Society Association.

2013-2014 Committee Member, 50th Anniversary Commemoration Committee, Law and Society Association.

2013 Nominee as candidate for Law and Society’s Board of Trustees (Class of 2016). Nominated by current Board of Trustees members. Law and Society Association.

Departmental and University Services

2016-2017 “Enhancing Diversity” Subcommittee, Dean’s Strategic Planning Initiative, The College of Arts and Science, Temple University

2017 Committee on Social Entrepreneurship in the Liberal Arts, The College of Arts and Science, Temple University

2013-2016 Faculty Advisory Board, Temple University Center for the Humanities (CHAT)

2013 Scholar Advancement Program, Co-Founder and Faculty Adviser Partnered with the "Office of Scholarship Development and Fellowships Advising" to create the Temple University Scholar Advancement Program which identifies, mentors and cultivates top undergraduates for summer research opportunities. These programs offer summer stipends, the opportunity to work with faculty mentors and admission to PhD program with fellowship. 8

2012-2017 Comprehensive Exam Committee for “Theory,” Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University

2012-2017 Undergraduate Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University Faculty Lead for Undergraduate Awards (accept when on sabbatical)

2013, 2017 Hiring Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University

2011, 2012 Research Committee, Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University

2006, 2007 Thesis Award Selection Committee, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

2006, 2007 Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

Invited Presentations

2017 “A Book Dialogue on ‘Crook County’ with Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve and Naomi Murakawa,” Co-hosted by Department of African American Studies and Labyrinth Books Princeton, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

2017 “Crook County” 2017 Distinguished Critical Race Theory Lecture, University of California- Irvine, School of Law, Irvine, CA.

2017 “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court,” 18th Annual Strauser Lecture in Criminal Justice” Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA.

2017 “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court,” Department of African American Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI.

2017 “Crook County,” A book discussion and signing, Temple University Alumni Association, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL.

2017 “Racism, Resistance and the Criminal Defense,” Capstone Speaker, Twelfth Annual Summit on Public Defense Improvement, The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants, Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL.

2016 “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court,” Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC), Urban Studies, and The Criminal Justice Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

2016 “Doing Racism while Doing Justice: Racism and Discretion in Chicago's Felony Court System,” Faculty Colloquium DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL

2016 “Crook County Lawyers: A Guide to Students and Lawyers Working in Chicago's Criminal Courts,” DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL.

2016 “Defending in ‘Crook County:’ Lessons for Philadelphia Public Defenders,” The Defender Association of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

2016 "Crook County," A book discussion and signing, Spotlight Series: Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA.

2016 "Crook County," A book discussion and signing, Illuminating (In)Justice Series: The University of Chicago School of Social Service, Chicago, IL.

2016 “Doing Racism while Doing Justice in Chicago's Criminal Courts” The Vera Institute for Justice, New New York, NY.

2016 “Doing Racism in Organizations: Criminal Courts, Law and Racialized Justice” The University of Michigan Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS), Ann Arbor, MI.

2016 “Doing Racism while Doing Justice: Racism and Discretion in Chicago's Felony Court System,” The Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

2015 “Legal Environments and the Production of Quality Representation,” Featured Speaker, Workshop on the Quality of Legal Representation: Definition, Measurement, Theory and Practice, Supported by the National Science Foundation (award number 1550942) and co-sponsored by the New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services and the School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany.

2015 “Lawyering and Race in the 21st Century,” Northwestern Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic Children and Family Justice, Chicago, IL.

2015 “Crook County: Racism and Injustice in the American Criminal Courts,” Ideas and Innovations Speaker The University of Wisconsin Law’s Institute for Legal Studies, Madison, WI.

2015 “The Code of the Courts: Justice in Chicago’s Felony Courts,” The American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL.

2015 “Code of the Courts: Racialized Justice in a Colorblind Era,” The Department of Sociology, The University of Pennsylvania.” Philadelphia, PA.

2015 “Doing Colorblind Racism while Doing Justice.” The Conference of the Ford Foundation of Fellows, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA.

2014 “Doing Colorblind Racism while Doing Justice.” Invited presentation for the annual meeting of the Racial Democracy, Crime & Justice-Network, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

2014 “Special 50th Anniversary Roundtable: Integration 2.0: Race and Diversity in LSA” Panelist, Plenary Session, Law and Society Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. Co-Panelists included: Jeannine Bell, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Chair), Kaaryn Gustafson, UConn School of Law, Osagie Obasogie, University of California Hastings, John Park, UC Santa Barbara, David Wilkins, Harvard Law School, Program on the Legal Profession

2014 “Misdemeanors: Widening the Net of Punishment.” Panelist, Law and Society Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.

2014 “Criminal Justice as a Welfare Handout.” Symposium: The Interplay of Race, Gender, Class, Crime and Justice. University of California, Irvine School of Law.

2014 “A Consumer Perspective to Evaluating Criminal Justice” Symposium: Beyond the Wall: A Symposium on Mass Incarceration. Fox Rothschild Center for Law and Society Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

2013 “Code of the Courts: Racialized Justice in a Color-Blind Era,” Invited by Elijah Andersen for the Urban Ethnography Workshop at Yale University, New Haven, CT.

2013 “Segregated Court Communities and Mass Incarceration,” The symposium entitled, “Mass Incarceration in America: Advocacy, Art, and the Academy” at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Co-Panelists included: Ernie Drucker, Todd Clear, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

2013 “Mass Incarceration as a Welfare Handout: How Criminal Justice Professionals Adapt Welfare Dependency Narratives to the World of Custody and Courts,” Distinguished Faculty Lecture series, Center for Humanities at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Televised on Temple TV

2013 “Reinterpreting the Zealous Advocate,” The Beasley School of Law Faculty Colloquium, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

2012 “Racialized Justice in Action: Criminal Courts and the Illusion of Colorblindness,” The lecture series, “Professor Speaks,” Pennsylvania’s Graterford Prison, Skippack Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

2011 "The Racialization of Criminal Justice: The Attachment of Racial Meanings to the Administration of Justice," Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop, Council on Advanced Studies (CAS) and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2008 “Promises For-Profit: Commodification of Meaning and Culture in the Marketing of Post-Secondary Education,” Northwestern University Ethnography Workshop, Evanston, IL.

2008 “Interviewing in Immigration Court Research: Techniques to Tap into a Narrative of Experience,” Lecture presented to the attorneys of Latham & Watkins, LLP, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, New York City, NY and Washington D.C.

2008 “Court Watching in Cook County: Background, Techniques and Strategies,” Lecture presented to the attorneys of Winston and Strawn, LLP and DLA Piper, LLP, Chicago, IL.

2007 “Improving Parental Involvement in Illinois Under the No Child Left Behind Act: An Illinois Action Plan,” Researcher Director and Presenter on behalf of Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice to Governor Rod R. Blagojevich’s Illinois Parent Leadership Council, Chicago, IL.

2007 “Advocating by Keeping Their Distance: Public Defending and the Translation of Achieved Attributes in Adjudication,” Paper presented at Culture Workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

2006, 2007 “Doing Undergraduate Research: Opportunities, Skills, and Jobs,” Invited Speaker, Undergraduate Seminar, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

2006 “Social Science in Advertising: The Art and Science of Advertising,” Invited Speaker, Chicago Field Studies Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

2006 “Developing an Ethnographic Perspective in Court Watching,” Invited Panelist, Court Watching Training, Study of the Cook County Criminal Courts, Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL.

2006 “Social Science in Advertising: The Art and Science of Advertising,” Guest Lecturer, Department of Marketing, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.

2005 “Considering Consumption and Culture,” Graduate Leader and Facilitator,

Salon Discussion, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

2005 “Choices and Changes: Considering a Future in Graduate School,” Invited Speaker, Undergraduate Seminar, Department of Sociology, St. Mary’s College-Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.

2005 “The Business of Brand Building Yourself: Insider Strategies on Interviewing,” Invited Speaker, Department of Marketing, Robert Morris College, Aurora, IL.

2005 “Translating the Sociological Perspective into Job Market Success,” Invited Speaker, Undergraduate Seminar, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

2005 “Breaking into the Biz: Advertising your Way into the Industry,” Invited Speaker, AdShop: Advertising Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

2004 “Brand Building in Career Building: Applying Marketing Strategies to your Job Search,” Invited Speaker, Department of Career Development, Robert Morris College, Chicago, IL.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

2016 “Author Meets Critics: Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court,” ASC Division on People of Color and Crime’s Sponsored Session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, LA.

2016 “The Organizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in Criminal Court Processing,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Criminology Association, New Orleans, LA.

2016 “Methods Cafe Primer - Doing Empirical Research Using Critical Race Theory (eCRT),” Methods Training and Professional Develop Course presented at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, New Orleans, LA.

2015 “The Racialization of Latinos in the Criminal Courts,” Sponsored Panel on Latino Criminology, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC.

2015 “Alcatraz on California Ave: Public Life by the Walls of Nation's Largest Jail,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.

2015 “The Latino Experience of Racialized Justice in Criminal Courts,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Seattle, WA.

2014 “Doing Justice While Doing Racism” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

2014 “Satisfying the Appearance Justice: A Consumer Perspective to Consideration of Criminal Justice” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Minneapolis, MN.

2013 “Crashing the System at Its Controls: Ending Mass Incarceration through Prosecutorial Power?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Boston, MA.

2012 “Seeing Like ‘The State’: The Construction of Prosecutors’ Professional Identity as Oppositional to Bureaucratic Practices.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Honolulu, HI.

2009 “Promises For-Profit: Commodification of Meaning in the Marketing of Post-Secondary Education.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

2007 “Advocating by Keeping Their Distance: Public Defending and the Translation of Achieved Attributes in Adjudication.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, NY.

2007 “Improving Parental Involvement in Illinois Under the No Child Left Behind Act.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

2006 “College For-Profit in California: Shaping an Institution to Fit Students’ Cultural and Social Capital.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the California Sociological Association, Riverside, CA.

2006 “College For-Profit in California: Shaping an Institution to Fit Students’ Cultural and Social Capital.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Illinois Sociological Association, Rock Island, IL.

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Criminology American Sociological Association Law and Society Association Empirical Critical Race Workshop Racial Democracy, Crime and Justice Network (RDCJN), The Ohio State University

Teaching & Advising Experience

Instruction:

2011-17 Primary Instructor, Temple University Graduate Course: Race and Criminal Justice Undergraduate Courses: Criminal Courts and Criminal Justice Criminology: Nature of Crime

2010-11 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Legal Studies Honors Seminar, Fall 2010 and Winter 2011 with Professor Nicholas Pedriana

2009-10 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Legal Studies Honors Seminar, Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 with Professor Nicholas Pedriana

2008-09 Lecturer, Northwestern University Introduction to the Discipline of Sociology, Graduate Seminar, Fall 2008 and Winter 2009

2008 Guest Lecturer, Northwestern University Introduction to Advertising, Fall 2008

2007-08 Lecturer, Northwestern University Introduction to the Discipline of Sociology, Graduate Seminar, Fall 2007 and Winter 2008

2006 Adjunct Professor, Westwood College, Los Angeles, CA Introduction to Macroeconomics, Summer 2006 13

Introduction to Advertising, Summer 2006

2005-06 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Gender and Society, Fall 2005 and Winter 2006, with Professor Nicola K. Beisel

2005 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University Introduction to Sociology, Spring 2005, with Professor Mary Jane Osa

Advising:

Isiah Gill - Undergraduate Student Mentor to the Winner of the 2014 Carolyn Karcher Prize, a former faculty member in the English department, this award is presented to a junior in the College of Liberal Arts who has demonstrated academic excellence and a commitment to progressive social activism and social justice; Winner of the Doris Grabosky Award – for students with high academic performance and financial need.

Steve Specht – Undergraduate Student Mentor to the winner of the 2014 Nadia Kravchenko Award - given to an exceptional, non-traditional CLA student pursuing their bachelor’s degree.

Juwan Bennett - Undergraduate Student/Graduate Student McNair Scholar Advisee; Winner of a 2013 Diamond Award – the highest recognition given by the Division of Student Affairs to Temple University undergraduate students; Winner of the 2013 Criminal Justice Faculty Award - awarded by the Department of Criminal Justice to graduating students for outstanding academic performance and community or departmental service. Ford Foundation Honorable Mention (Pre-doctoral category (2014-2015))

Dionna Davis - Undergraduate Student Winner of the 2014 Phoenix Award – awarded by the Criminal Justice Department to members of the graduating class who have achieved academic excellence in the face of challenging life circumstances.

William Kelly - Undergraduate Student Diamond Research Scholars Program (2014) Winner of the Marks and Emma Kohn Memorial Award- established by Walter and Anita Kohn in memory of Mr. Kohn’s parents, to be given to an outstanding student in the College of Liberal Arts.

Felicia Henry - Undergraduate Student Diamond Research Scholars Program (2013)

Lauren Hayes - Graduate Student Co-authored publication in Law and Social Inquiry, Independent Study Adviser. Adviser for 601 paper. Winner of 2015 Best 601 paper award.

Related Experience

1998 Special Assistant to a Counselor to the President, The White House, The Office of the Chief of Staff, Washington, D.C. • Substituted for a full-time staff member as Special Assistant to Counselor to the President, Paul Begala. Conducted research and media reviews for Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles.

1997 Law Clerk, Illinois State's Attorney's Office, Skokie, IL • Conducted ethnographic research within the court for the Chicago Field Studies Program at Northwestern University. 14

1997 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL • Assisted Professor Nicola Beisel in data collection for a book on the Hyde Amendment entitled, Race and the Politics of Abortion in America.

Interests and Community Involvement

2001-2011 Head Coach and Figure Skating Instructor: Chicago Park District, Chicago, IL Founder and Head coach of the Chicago Skates Junior Youth Synchronized Skating Team.

1995-Present Professional Singing: Sang (solo) national anthem at five Major League Baseball stadiums including: Wrigley Field (three times), Comiskey Park and Tropicana Field.