Michelle Cubellis is a Pinkerton Graduate Research Fellow with the Research and Evaluation Center and a Ph.D. student at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Previously, she was a research assistant to Dr. Karen Terry of John Jay College and helped to update the book, Sexual Offenders and Offenses: Theory, Practice, and Policy. Michelle graduated with honors with a BS in Criminal Justice and History from Bridgewater State College.

Sheyla Delgado is a Lewis Rudin Fellow in Applied Justice Research at the Research and Evaluation Center and a second year student in the M.A. program in criminal justice at John Jay College, specializing in criminology & deviance. Sheyla is interested in understanding the experiences of vulnerable hard-to-reach populations, including the ways in which their social ties to conventional society mitigate their vulnerability and institutional marginalization. In June 2013, she joins the research staff at the Research & Evaluation Center, working on projects related to gun violence. Her prior experience includes working an NIJ funded project studying victimization patterns among undocumented migrant workers where she used Respondent Driven Sampling to collect social network data among this hard-to-reach population. Sheyla graduated from Florida State University in 2008 with a B.A. in Criminology and a B.A. in International Affairs.

LaTifa T. Fletcher is a Pinkerton Graduate Research Fellow with the Research and Evaluation Center, a Ph.D. student in developmental psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College. Previously, she was a researcher at the Child Study Center at New York University and an intern in the human rights clinic with Doctors of the World USA. Tia is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and she earned the MA in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Alana Henninger is a Pinkerton Graduate Research Fellow with the Research and Evaluation Center and a doctoral student in criminal justice at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before entering the doctoral program, she worked on substance abuse studies at Johns Hopkins University. She also worked with victims of human trafficking in Turin, Italy, and did policy research pertaining to human trafficking at the Protection Project in Washington, D.C. Alana graduated from York College of Pennsylvania with a BS in psychology and holds an MA in forensic psychology from John Jay College.

Bryce Peterson is a Pinkerton Graduate Research Fellow with the Research and Evaluation Center and a Ph.D. student and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Previously, he was a research assistant at John Jay’s Prisoner Reentry Institute and the co-project manager working on the Correctional Incident Database, where he collected data on critical correctional incidents in the United States. Bryce will spend the summer of 2013 as a researcher with the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. He graduated with honors in criminal justice from California State University, Long Beach.

Jennifer Pipitone is a Lewis Rudin Fellow in Applied Justice Research at the Research and Evaluation Center, a Ph.D. student in developmental psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an adjunct professor for CUNY. She is also collaborating with Bank Street College of Education’s Liberty LEADS after-school program for underrepresented NYC youth, working on research and curriculum development for the “Green Summer School” study abroad initiative in Germany. Jennifer graduated with honors in psychology/environmental studies from Loyola University New Orleans.

Cassandra Ramdath is a Ph.D. student at John Jay College. She was named as a Lewis Rudin Fellow in Applied Justice Research with the Research and Evaluation Center beginning in 2010. Previously, she was a probation and parole officer in Canada and conducted qualitative research on potential factors of miscarriages of justice in Australia. She also worked as a research assistant with Professors David Kennedy and David Brotherton. Cassandra was born in Toronto, Canada, and graduated with a bachelors in social science with honors and a double major in criminology and psychology from the University of Ottawa. She earned the MA criminology at Bond University in Queensland, Australia.