Deana G. Lewis
Associate Director
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About
Deana G. Lewis is an Associate Director at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Deana’s scholarly and community work focuses on trans and cisgender Black women and girls who have experienced state violence. Her research interests include Black girlhood studies, the school/prison nexus, and youth incarceration. More specifically, Deana is interested in Black girls’ experiences with school discipline and how their experiences have been left out of discourses about the school to prison pipeline and youth incarceration in general.
Outside of academia, Deana participates in and supports the work of multiple Chicago community and national organizing collectives including Love & Protect, Just Practice Collaborative, and Survived & Punished.