Alana Gunn is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Criminology. She is a social work practitioner who has worked with formerly incarcerated individuals and the agencies charged with supporting their re-entry. Her research focuses on how multi-level stigmatization shapes the lives of individuals navigating trauma, illness, and surveillance. Alana also examines ways of advancing ethically-sound, stigma-sensitive research with marginalized communities.
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