Camille Quinn, PhD, AM, LCSW, LISW-S

Dr. Camille R. Quinn is a health criminologist in the fields of Black girls and young women’s health and mental health equity and the development of tailored interventions to promote their wellness and crime desistance. Dr. Quinn is a nationally recognized youth expert and leads and advises several studies to develop health and mental health correlates associated with adolescent girls and young adult women’s law-breaking behavior to develop and tailor individual, familial, community and structural level interventions. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Ohio and Illinois and has over 15 years of direct service and administrative experience in social and health services. Most recently, she was reappointed to the Ohio Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice Statewide Advisory Group and is an invited member of the Ohio Supreme Court Sub-committee for Juvenile Justice. In addition, she provided expert testimony for state legislative action, including the passage of SB 256 (January 2021) mandating parole eligibility review for juveniles sentenced to life without parole. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of a mixed methods study funded by the City of Columbus and in collaboration with Franklin County Juvenile Court to identify ways to reduce their stress and promote healing and crime desistance with Black girls and their parents/caregivers. She is also the Co- Principal Investigator of a criminal justice reform project in Central Ohio funded by the MacArthur Foundation.