She received her PhD from Emory University in May 2015, and her dissertation was entitled "Race, Racism, and Crime: An Empirical Assessment of African American Offending." She has published in the Journal of Criminal Justice and the Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality. Her research interests include criminological theory, justice, violence, and the intersectionality of race and gender. She aims to bring race and gender central to the criminological literature by addressing how social psychological processes help explain the emergence of negative outcomes across age, class, gender, and racial lines. email: deena.isom@gmail.com