Please join Youth and Education Advocates for a Discussion on the School-to-Prison Pipeline with Angela Irvine, Vice President of Community Programs at Impact Justice

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

12:45-2:00pm | Room tbd

Lunch will be Provided – Please RSVP here.

Angela will discuss her research on school discipline disparities across race, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression, as well as a five- county initiative she’s currently leading to identify the risk factors that drive students who have been suspended into the juvenile justice system

Angela Irvine, PhD, has more than 20 years of experience in education and social policy. Raised in Santa Cruz County, CA, Angela earned her BA from UC Berkeley in 1984, her secondary teaching credential from St. Mary’s College of California in 1985, and her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in 2002 while simultaneously serving as a National Science Fellow (NSF) in public policy and program evaluation. Angela spent 10 years running her own program evaluation and policy research business, and she has studied housing, education, health, and criminal justice policy. Angela spent the last four years as research director at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), serving as the principal investigator of a national study of juvenile deincarceration; a national study of LGBT youth in the juvenile justice system; a project to improve permanency for LGBT youth and youth of color within the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems; a survey of every detention hall, ranch, and camp in California to understand statewide pathways into the juvenile justice system for LGBT youth; and a National Institute of Justice researcher-practitioner partnership grant in Santa Cruz County to determine whether structured decision making instruments used by adult probation departments can lead to more equitable probation outcomes for Latinos and women.