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Brianna Suslovic

Brianna Suslovic (she/her) is a PhD student in Social Welfare at the UChicago Crown Family School. With years of social work experience in New York City's criminal-legal system, her research is directly informed by the wise insights of her former clients and students. Brianna is an abolitionist scholar and educator who coordinates an educational program in Cook County Jail. She has also coordinated educational programming with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts and Education Project at Logan Women's Prison. In these carceral contexts, she has taught high school social studies, current affairs, and a sociological course on violence in society. Brianna is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar and a former Mansueto Institute Urban Doctoral Fellow. She holds an MSW from Smith College and earned her Bachelor's degree from Harvard College. At UChicago, she has organized and advocated with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Chicago Graduate Students United-United Electrical Workers Local 1103, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.