Sukhmani Singh, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Sukhmani Singh is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work and affiliate faculty member of the Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequality at the School of Law, University of Connecticut. She is an applied developmental-community psychologist whose research is anchored in intersectional and decolonial frameworks and her scholarship aims to advance systems change, particularly at the nexus of the juvenile legal and education systems.

Dr. Singh is a mixed-methods researcher who deeply values and engages in critical participatory research as an important praxis that lifts the lived experiences of those most impacted (e.g., systems-impacted girls of color) by unjust systems to advance structural solutions to social injustice.

Currently, Dr. Singh is the Principal Investigator of a grant awarded by the Ms. Foundation for Women. Anchored in the “no research about us, without us” mantra, this project seeks to engage young women co-researchers directly impacted by the juvenile legal system to both create and disseminate policy-based recommendations to both juvenile and education systems to effectively serve the educational needs of systems-impacted youth.

Dr. Singh was recently selected as a SCRA Research Scholar. She was also appointed co-chair to the Gender Responsiveness Workgroup of the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee (JJPOC), established to evaluate policies related to the juvenile justice system in Connecticut.

Dr. Singh’s scholarship appears in several peer-reviewed publications including American Journal of Community Psychology, Criminal Justice and Behavior, American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, among others.

Dr. Singh completed her doctorate and post-doctorate at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University and her BA in psychology from City University of New York.

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