Graduate Student Association (GSA)

Lindsey Insco received her Bachelor's in chemistry from Xavier University in 2022 and her Master's in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2023. Lindsey is currently a doctoral student of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include life course criminology, drug overdoses, and, more generally, terrorism. 

Esnart is an international doctoral student in the college of education.  Her program concentration is  education community-based action research. Her research interests revolve around the intersection of early childhood education, emergency education, and the rights of girls.

Amota is an international doctoral student advised by Dr Ben Kelcey (Professor of Quantitative Methods) at the College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. Amota is interested in causal evaluation and machine learning in education and social sciences. His research focuses on the design and analysis of individual and cluster (fully and partially-nested) randomized trials, optimal allocation, and power analysis. These are research areas that are well developed and relatively straightforward in natural science and pharmaceutical fields but young and complex in social sciences where there are contextual and latent factors to capture. Amota is currently exploring ways to apply Machine Learning (neural networks, explainable boosting, shapley values etc.) in multilevel and high-dimensional data structures in education and psychotherapy settings. He is also working with Australian researchers on developing a new, more nuaced and fair evaluation framework called Critical DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) that is based on QuantCrit (the integration of quantitative and critical inquiry methodologies). Amota has presented his research at national premier research conferences, American Evaluation Association (AEA), American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE), and the American Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management. 

Catherine is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (2016) and a Master’s in Applied Behavioral Science with a concentration in criminal justice (2020) from Wright State University. Her research interests lie in corrections specifically focusing on offender rehabilitation, prisoner reentry, in-prison programming, and specialty courts.

Tiffany is a highly motivated and experienced educator passionate about early childhood education. She is currently a doctoral student in Educational Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she is concentrating in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education. Tiffany holds undergraduate degrees in Early Childhood and Inclusive Early Childhood Education and a master's degree in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on STEM Learning. Her research interests include mathematics and science education, STEM/STEAM learning, and play-based learning.