Background

Clarice is an AM/Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Prior to starting her Ph.D., Clarice worked as a educator for five years in a range of areas including teaching preschool aged children in rural Arkansas through Teach for America, teaching English to middle school students in Madrid, Spain, and working inside Rikers Island Correctional Facility as a jail tutor to support the educational goals of incarcerated men and women. She also conducted research on the collateral consequences of probation and parole at the Columbia University Justice Lab. Clarice received her Master’s degree from New York University in Educational Leadership, Politics, and Advocacy and a B.S. degree from Texas Woman’s University in Government.

Research

Clarice is interested in disproportionate school discipline practices, police surveillance, and sustained criminalization as a traumatizing mechanism which funnels Black adolescents from schools into jails and prisons. She is particularly interested in the ways schools perpetuate and intercept psychological harm and violence. Clarice hopes her research becomes a tool to further transformational just practices in communities, schools, and the field of social work.