Kathryn Bocanegra - ssa.uchicago.edu

1 Kathryn Bocanegra 502 N. La Grange Rd, La Grange Park, IL 60526. Education June 2019 (expected), University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, Chicago, IL Dissertation: Correctional Boundaries, Examining Punishment in Community: A Spatial Analysis of Probation in Cook County, IL June 2008, University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, Chicago IL Concentration: Community Planning, Organizing and Development December 2006, La Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, Spain Masters in Bioethics. Dissertation: The Ethics of Caring for the Chronically Ill May 2005, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Majors: Anthropology, Spanish, Pre-Medicine Certificates June 2012: Civil Leadership, UIC Great Cities June 2011: Non-Profit Business Excellence, Notre Dame Licensure Licensed Clinical Social Worker, State of Illinois Research Interests Neighborhoods, crime and disorder Urban youth trauma and resilience Community corrections Criminal justice sentencing policy Appointed Board Positions Commissioner, Governor s Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform 2015 - 2016 Board Member, Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council (2014- current) Commissioner, Racial Profiling and Data Oversight Board (October 2011- October 2014) Research Experience 2017 Present Research Assistant Smart Decarceration Initiative, University of Chicago Qualitative analysis of community-based efforts to prevent the criminal justice involvement of individuals with behavioral health disorders.

2 Contributed to interviews, data collection, data management, data analysis, grant writing, and coordinating with community research partners. 2014 Present Graduate Research Assistant Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention, University of Chicago Quantitative analysis of neighborhood-level trends in violence, evaluation of prevention programs, technical assistance for community partners engaged in community violence prevention work. 2012 2014 Research Partner Mexican-American Youth Perceptions of Community Violence Principal Investigator: Maryse Richards, Loyola University, Department of Psychology Facilitated collaboration between Enlace Chicago and Loyola to conduct qualitative research engaging school-aged youth in focus groups. Topic of research: sense of safety, perception of community violence. 2012 2013 Research Assistant Urban Youth Trauma Center, Institute on Juvenile Research University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry Community liaison for training in best-practices around community violence prevention and program evaluation 2010 Fellow University of Illinois Center on Responses to Catastrophe Conducted research on protective factors for Burundi and Liberian refugee communities that promote academic excellence in school-age youth 2008- 2009 Research Assistant Survey Lab, University of Chicago Conducted research for the Nashville Health Studies and Graduate Education Survey.

3 Conducted health and opinion phone surveys of Nashville residents. Completed qualitative interviews with University of Chicago faculty on supervising doctoral students 2004 2005 Research Assistant Vanderbilt Cancer Center Conducted qualitative interviews between affected mothers and their unaffected daughters investigating coping, self-regulation, and stress. Teaching Experience 2018 Instructor SSAD 61100: Violence Prevention Seminar 2017 Teaching Assistant SSAD 63512: Power and Inequality, the Civil Rights Movement Guest Lectures: SSAD 47442: Criminal Justice and Social Work Interface SSAD 47722: Structural Social Work Practice and the Mexican Experience in Chicago Grants and Fellowships 2014 MacArthur Foundation $350,000 grant to evaluate the ecological impact of a community violence prevention network in Little Village and to generate a blueprint of youth safety 2005 2007 Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship $50,000 post-graduate fellowship to conduct community work and academic studies as an ambassador in Madrid, Spain.

4 Conducted research at El Nino Jesus Children s Hospital on care of chronically ill children in partnership with the Red Cross Publications Bocanegra , K. (2018). Community Context and Mass Incarceration. Book chapter in The Sage Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology (Morgan, ). Forthcoming Bocanegra , K. (2017) Community and Decarceration: Developing Localized Solutions. Book chapter in Smart Decarceration Initiative (Epperson, Pettus-Davis). In press Bocanegra , K. Gorman-Smith, D., Patel, S. (2017). Preventing Youth Aggression in Community. Book Chapter in Handbook of Adolescent Aggression: Emergence, Development and Intervention (Malti, Ruben). Under review Deane, K., Zakaryan, A. Richards,.M. Santiago, C., Bocanegra , K., Scott, D., Escobar,.C, Romero, E., Mozley, M. (2017). Mexican-American Urban Youth Perspectives on Environmental Stressors, Psychosocial Difficulties, and Coping: En Sus Propias Palabras.

5 Journal of Child and Family Studies. Under Review. Zakaryan, Romero, Richards, Bocanegra , Deane, Santiago, Mozley, Scott (2017, anticipated). Mexican-American Youth s Perception of Community Violence. American Journal of Community Psychology Voisin, Kim, Bocanegra , Morotta (2016, anticipated). The Juvenile Justice System and African American Adolescents: Examining Mental Health, Delinquency, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Behaviors, and Community Violence. Bocanegra , Rak (2015). The Little Village Youth Safety Map. Enlace Chicago Saclarides (2009). Selling Chicago as a Global City: Redevelopment and Ethnic Neighborhoods. Advocates Forum Peer Reviewed Conference Presentation March 2018 Unintended consequences of criminal justice reform: a contextual analysis of probation. Oral paper presentation. Princeton Graduate Research Symposium. Newark, NJ. January 2018 Equity-oriented mental health: reducing barriers to treatment.

6 Oral paper presentation. Society for Social Work Research. Washington, January 2017 Structural barriers, not stigma, limit access to mental health services for low-income Latino communities: Community based research. Poster presentation. Society for Social Work Research. New Orleans, LA September 2016 Structural barriers, not stigma, limit access to mental health services for low-income Latino communities: Community based research. Latino Social Work Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL. April, 2016 Structural Social Work: A Framework for Understanding Latino Issues Si Se Puede: Social Workers United for Latino Advancement, New York, NY March, 2015 Mexican-American Youth s Perception of Community Violence Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA September, 2014 Data- Driven Prevention Efforts: Case Example of Little Village Chicago School of Data Days Conference, Chicago IL June 2014 Community-Based Violence Prevention Collaborative Effort National Council of La Raza Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA May 2014 Data-Driven Community Violence Prevention Model Re-Connecting the Pathways, Springfield.

7 IL Clinical and Practice Experience 2016 Current Consultant Alliance for Safety and Justice Provide technical assistance in working with survivors of community violence in leadership development trainings for policy reform 2016- 2017 Consultant Institute for Nonviolence Chicago Provide training and technical assistance to victim s advocates Facilitate weekly groups for families of homicide victims Facilitate monthly groups for survivors of violent injury 2010 2015 Director of Violence Prevention Enlace Chicago, Chicago, IL Facilitate a prevention network funded by MacArthur and LISC, Little Village Youth Safety Network , composed of 12 neighborhood organizations focusing on prevention services for 5th-8th grade students Supervise 8 community violence prevention programs: Safe Passage, CeaseFire, Intensive Youth Services, Adult Re-Entry Program, JISC Diversion Pilot, Violence Prevention Collaborative, Grupo Consuelo (support group for parents who ve lost children to violence), Rainbows (support group for surviving siblings of homicide victims Budgeting and financial management for state contracts totally $ million Supervise 21 full-time staff and 35 part-time staff and 7 interns (ranging from Bachelors to PhD level) from 6 different universities as well as 20 volunteer staff Lead Coordinator for Roots to Wellness (Mental Health Collaborative) Grant writing, program evaluation, and build collaborative projects with other providers in Little Village 2009 2010 Program Director Therapeutic Outreach Youth Services (TOYS))

8 , Pilsen Wellness Center Chicago, IL Provide supervision and staffing to 8 counselors, 1 psychiatrist, 2 interns, 2 administrative assistants, 1 data statistician operating out of 4 different program sites Supervise three youth programs for Latino families living in Southwest Chicago Metropolitan Area: Mental Health Juvenile Justice (MHJJ), Outpatient Therapeutic Services, and Community Health Initiatives to Support and Promote Awareness (CHISPA) Coordinate wrap-around recovery services for high-risk Latino youth and families Develop a comprehensive and culturally-appropriate mental health programs for Latino youth 2008 Psychosocial Support Program Assistant, International Orthodox Christian Charities Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Designed monitoring and evaluation tools applied at 8 branch offices for the basic care program for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVCs)

9 Compiled field data reports from 8 site visits for the Cooperative Working Plan for 2009 2007 Youth Outreach Support Staff Autocephalous Albanian Orthodox Church Tirana, Albania Planned 3 week English language camps for Tirana and Elbasan Supervised creative arts programs for adolescent girls in Tirana and Elbasan 2007 2008 Bilingual Case Manager Pilsen Wellness Center Chicago, IL Provided counseling and case management services to chronically mentally ill adult individuals 2007 Bilingual Case Manager Raphael House San Francisco, CA Provided counseling and referral services for family s experiencing homelessness Languages Spanish: fluent speaking, reading writing Greek: speaking proficiency