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 the interaction between individuals with disabilities and the criminal justice system, and more generally, victimization. 

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 behavioral science. His research focuses on the design and analysis of individual and cluster randomized trials, methods for fully and partially nested multisite clustered 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, etc.) in multilevel and high-dimensional data structures in education and psychotherapy settings. He is also interested in developing user-friendly R packages and R ShinyApps to make sophisticated quantitative methodologies more accessible to social science researchers. Amota has presented his scholarly work at various national research conferences, including the 2022 and 2023 American Evaluation Association (AEA), American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the American Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management annual meetings. Finally, Amota is also working with Australian researchers on QuantCrit, the integration of quantitative methods and critical inquiry approaches.

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.