I have my Master's Degree in Criminal Justice, and my Ph.D. in sociology, emphasis in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania prior to coming to the Washington Semester Program I have taught at the Institute of Criminology and criminal Justice at the university of Maryland in College Park for several years. I have been with the Washington Justice Semester Program at American for seventeen years. My research interests incorporate various aspects within criminal justice. In graduation school, I worked on juvenile justice research. Later in my career, my interests expanded to capital punishment issues. Together with my colleague, we published: Jurors in Capital Cases: What Can One Maryland Jury Teach Us? in the journal Criminal Justice of the American Bar Association. More recently, my research interests have expanded to human trafficking issues. I wrote a chapter: "Legal Cases Prosecuted under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000" in Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives, edited by Sally Stoecker and Louise Shelley.