Headshot of PhD Student Jessica Seawright wearing a plaid blazer.

Jessica Seawright, MSW, LCSW

  • PhD Student, Social Work
  • Research Assistant, CCEP Center for Inclusive Transition, Education, & Employment (CITEE)

Jessica Seawright is a doctoral student in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests focus on reducing the disproportionate impact of the criminal and juvenile-legal system on people with disabilities through mixed methods, participatory approaches.

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

Curriculum Vitae