People

• Howard L. Pinderhughes, Ph.D.

  UC San Francisco

  (415) 502-5074

  howard.pinderhughes@ucsf.edu

   

  Howard L. Pinderhughes is director of the Center’s education and outreach core. An associate professor at UC San Francisco, his research focuses on race relations among youth, the causes and consequences of youth violence, the dynamics of adolescent relationship violence and the role of race and ethnicity in the production of unequal health outcomes. His publications include Race in the Hood: Conflict and Violence Among Urban Youth (University of Minnesota Press 1997). He received his Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley.

  
  

• Keramet Reiter, MA, JD

  UC Berkeley, Institute for the Study of Social Change

  (510) 642-0813

   

  Keramet Reiter is a Ph.D. student in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. Her dissertation examines the supermaximum security prison boom: the explosion in the late 1980s and early 1990s of high-security, intense-deprivation-condition prisons across the United States. Her primary interests in this work include the history of criminal justice reform, the institutional development of the prison, and understanding and mitigating the day-to-day impacts of U.S. incarceration policies. She brings ten years of experience in prisoner education, prison conditions research, and prisoners’ rights advocacy to this dissertation project

  
  

• Victor M. Rios, Ph.D.

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  (805) 893-6036

   

  Victor M. Rios is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the criminalization of black and Latino youth. He is currently working on a book titled, Punishing Race: The Criminalization of Black and Latino Youth.
  

  
  

• Miranda Lucia Ritterman M.P.H.

  UC Berkeley

  2420 Bowditch Street #5670

  Berkeley, CA , 94720

  miranda1@uclink.berkeley.edu

   

  Miranda Lucia Ritterman is a Ph.D. student in epidemiology at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Her research interests in the field of social epidemiology focus on the social determinants of adolescent mental and physical health, risk behaviors, and academic achievement. She is working on various adolescent health projects for UC Berkeley and Kaiser Permanente. Miranda is currently involved in the initiation of a youth research project in Oakland and San Francisco public secondary schools, entitled “School-based Violence Prevention: The Integration of Empirically-Supported Programs in Culturally-Diverse, Resource-Poor Settings,” with PI, UC Berkeley professor Dr. Emily Ozer.