Haylie Prochnow is a Doctoral student in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Criminology and Criminal Justice from California State University, Long Beach. Haylie’s primary research interests include corrections, rehabilitative programming, and reentry processes. She enjoy working directly with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals in a qualitative manner to ensure that their perspectives are shared in research that is conducted about their populations. Haylie also enjoys volunteering with social justice-oriented community organizations and is a strong proponent for scholar activism to ensure we, as scholars, give back to the communities we take from for our research.