Ruth Shefner

Ruth Shefner is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Mailman, on the sociology track, and is a predoctoral fellow in the NIDA funded T32 training program in Substance Use, HIV, and the Criminal Justice System. She was previously the Director of the Goldring Reentry Initiative, a program housed at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice that supports individuals pre- and post-release from Philadelphia’s county jail system. Her research interests are focused on policing, court based interventions, collateral consequences of mass incarceration, and opportunity to apply harm reduction principles to criminal legal systems.