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2019/2020 OSRC Scholarship Recipients
The Presenters
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Undergraduate
Angel-Reine Pink
Angel is majoring in Security Management and minoring in Cybercrimes. The intended impact of her research study is to produce awareness of the factors that account for the lack of representation of African American women in the legal profession and to explore the underlying causes.
02
Undergraduate
Ashley Dhillon
Ashley is a forensic psychology BA/MA student pursing a dual thesis/externship track. Her master’s thesis focuses on personality traits within the mental health practitioner community that can help determine successful treatment.
Bianca Hayles
Dr. Kevin Wolff, mentor
Bianca is majoring in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy. Bianca plans to conduct research on the Department of Education (DOE) policies’ impact on differently abled youth.
03
Undergraduate
04
Undergraduate
Carissa Stump
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Carissa is studying Forensic Psychology. Carissa’s research focuses on applied cognitive research as it relates to the United States criminal justice system. Carissa will test to see if jurors comply with anti-media instructions given by judges.
05
Graduate
Danielle E. Gary
Danielle is currently pursuing her Master of Arts degree in Forensic Psychology. Her research seeks to demonstrate a relationship between experienced traumas and academic achievement; specifically, she examines how the Strong Black Woman Schema is related to psychological distress.
Erika Diaz Ortiz
Erika is a Forensic Psychology Masters' student. Her research seeks to examine social stigmatization experienced by adolescents as an unforeseen consequence of justice involvement. The ultimate goal is to promote policy change that will better serve and protect at-risk justice-involved youth.
08
Graduate
Genevieve Biggers
Genevieve is a junior majoring in History with a minor in English. In looking at institutionalized religious and political persecutions in ancient Greece and Rome, Genevieve followed the basic methodological standards of an academic historian, using primary sources.
09
Undergraduate
10
Undergraduate
Karim Adnane
Karim is majoring in Economics and Forensic Accounting. His research explores the effects of welfare-related transfer payments on disadvantaged communities. The research will include a comparative analysis between EITC/TANF benefits and other transfer payment programs in the U.S.
Karla Galiano Herrera
Dr. Maria Rossi, mentor
Karla is double majoring in Latin American & Latinx Studies and Law & Society. She is looking at the differences in public health disparities, focusing on reproductive health services and the role linguistic, cultural, and environmental factors play for undocumented and low-income Latinx women.
11
Undergraduate
12
Undergraduate
Marien Morales
Marien is double majoring in forensic psychology and Latin American studies, and a second year OSRC scholarship recipient. Her research reveals that many of the women being incarcerated have committed their crimes due to economic needs and traumatic experiences such as sexual abuse and domestic violence.
Mikelina Fran
Mikelina is majoring in Law and Society, with a minor in Anthropology. Her research places Albanian immigrant women who have experienced or experience intimate partner violence at the center of her study. Mikelina plans to conduct a qualitative study with in-depth interviews of survivors of intimate partner violence.
13
Undergraduate
14
Undergraduate
Sharon Bayantemur
Sharon is majoring in Forensic Psychology with a minor in Philosophy and certificate in Dispute Resolution. Sharon is also a second year OSRC scholarship recipient. Her research focuses on how conversations between co-witnesses may cause them to forget key information surrounding the crime, specifically when conversing with an in- versus out-group member.
Vicky Qiu
Vicky is in the Criminal Justice Master’s Program. Her research project focuses on Chinese victims of sex trafficking who are located in NYC. The purpose of her research is to understand what works in the context of social service collaboration with police on sex trafficking crimes.
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Graduate
Agenda
AUG 1
Devon Kaat
Dr. Saul Kassin, mentor
Devon is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Forensic Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics at John Jay. His research looks into the relative age effect, and the exponentially increasing consequences that disadvantaged students face over time.
06
Undergraduate
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Sessions Stage
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Lunch
14:00
Networking
07
Undergraduate
Emilia Fittipaldi
Emilia is majoring in International Criminal Justice and minoring in Interdisciplinary Studies. She will employ Marc Sageman’s Social Identity Perspective (SIP) to analyze what leads people to political violence. Sageman’s perspective consists of several components such as a martial identity and a politicized social identity