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Jessica Seawright
- Research Assistant, Center for Innovative Transition, Education, & Employment
Jessica Seawright, MSW, LCSW
Education:
BS, University of Utah, 2009
MSW, University of Utah, 2015
Areas of Interest:
- Disability Justice
- Smart decarceration
- Disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile-legal system on historically oppressed communities
- Multi-system legacies of forced assimilation in the US
- Community alternatives to incarceration
- Post-acute recovery support for substance use disorders
- Provider competencies for working with system-involved and impacted individuals
- Social work ethics
- Promotion of professionals with lived experience
My research interests focus on reducing the disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile-legal system on people with disabilities through mixed methods and participatory approaches.