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T'Shana McClain

University of Denver

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University of Denver

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Shana McClain, MSW is a doctoral student and adjunct faculty at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She has direct practice experience with survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault and community organizing experience with LGBT folks across the South. As a research project manager, she co-managed a longitudinal mixed-methods project (CLASE), which explored the prevalence and perceptions of IPV and sexual violence across 13 UT System institutions at the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault at the University of Texas at Austin

Shana's most recent research explored restorative justice implementation for juvenile diversion across four pilot sites following supportive state legislation. Her research focuses on potential conflicting bids of identity following Black women's experiences of IPV and sexual assault and the extent of such violence by exploring data disaggregation and reexamining the current use of racial statistics. She is interested in exploring alternative justice approaches and their potential to mitigate racial/ethnic disparities in the context of IPV for survivors, offenders, and communities. As an educator, she uses critical and transformative pedagogy, providing her students a place to foster critical thinking, honor honest dialogue, and always remember they are humans before students.