2021 Featured Scholars Archive.

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Hernán Carvente Martinez

Title: Founder and Chief Executive Officer
​Current Institution: Healing Ninjas, Inc.
Latinx Celebration:  2021 Reebok Human Rights Award 

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Theresa Rocha Beardall

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Washington
Signature Publication:  "Abolition, Settler Colonialism, and the Persistent Threat of Indian Child Welfare"

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Carlos E. Rojas-Gaona

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Signature Publication:  Immigration Research. In The Encyclopedia of Research Methods and Statistical Techniques in Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by J.C. Barnes, and David R. Forde

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Beatriz Aldana Márquez

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
​Current Institution: Texas State University
Signature Publication:  "Pushing them to the edge: Suicide in immigrant detention centers as a product of organizational failure”​

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Juan R. Sandoval

Title: Doctoral Student, Department of Criminology, Law & Society
​Current Institution: University of California, Irvine
Signature Publication: "'Everyone is on supervision': the function of home visits in structuring family dynamics and exerting continuous control.” 

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Jacquelynn F. Duron

Title: Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
​Current Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Signature Publication:  “Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Needs Among Adolescents Involved with the Juvenile Justice System.” ​

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Jesus Adrian Campos Valdez

Title: Ph.D. Candidate, Administration of Justice
​Current Institution: Texas Southern University; University of St. Thomas & Lone Star College (current appointments)
Dissertation:  “Examining the Relationship Between LEP Status and Delinquency amongst High Schools Across America.” 

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Janice Iwama

Title: Assistant Professor; Law, Justice, and Criminology
​Current Institution: American University
Signature Publication:  “Rising Gun Sales in the Wake of Mass Shootings and Gun Legislation”

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John C. Navarro

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice and Criminology
​Current Institution: Sam Houston State University
Signature Publication:  “Revisiting sex offender registration and notification: Does awareness differ by community context?”

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Kristina M. Lopez

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: University of North Florida
Signature Publication: Prevalence of Victimization and Exposure to Violence in a
Sample of Hispanic Americans.​

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Brandon P. Martinez 

Title: Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Miami
Signature Publication:  “Time, Money, and Punishment: Institutional Racial-Ethnic Inequalities in Pretrial Detention and Case Outcomes”

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Serita Whiting

Title: Doctoral Candidate, Juvenile Justice & Psychology
​Current Institution: Prairie View A&M University
Signature Publication: Examining and Expanding Latinx General Strain Theory.
​A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, ‘Yes, someone like me can do this.’
~ Sonia Sotomayor ~
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