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Kaelyn Sanders

Kaelyn Sanders
  • PhD Candidate
  • School of Criminal Justice
  • BA 2020, The Ohio State University

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Biography

Kaelyn Sanders is a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Using critical and intersectional frameworks, Kaelyn’s research sits at the nexus of community supervision, reintegration, and inequality, and her dissertation research qualitatively explores digital inequality among Black returning citizens. Kaelyn’s past research has been published in Feminist Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, and the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

As a Ph.D. Candidate, Kaelyn has worked on program evaluation projects for community-based reentry and gun violence programs in the state of Michigan and serves as the graduate assistant for her program’s Prospective Doctoral Student Recruitment and Retention Program Grant. In this role, she works to increase DEI in her graduate program by meeting with students at minority-serving institutions and assessing areas where current graduate students can be better supported. She previously held a summer graduate research associate position at Arnold Ventures working on their pretrial justice team and interned at a local probation and reentry program in Lansing, Michigan.

Kaelyn is also a 2024 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and an alumni of The Ohio State University, where she received her B.A. in Sociology and Criminology.

Research Interests

  • Corrections
  • Reintegration
  • Inequality

Selected Publications

Sanders, K., Cobbina, J., & McCoy, H. Evidence-Based policy for diverse populations. (2024).
In B.C. Welsh, S.N. Zane, & D.P. Mears (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook for Evidence-Based Policy (pp. 349-369). Oxford University Press.

Roddy, A., Sanders, K., Sarver, C., & Salisbury, E. (2023). Financial marginalization, housing
access, transportation, and employment: Intersectional considerations in women’s reentry. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Sanders, K., Hoskins, K. M., & Morash, M. (2023). A first step in understanding influences on
system-involved women’s changes in financial need. Feminist Criminology.

Sanders, K. (2022). “The second sentencing”: A qualitative exploration of women going up
for parole. Feminist Criminology.

LaBerge, A., Mason, M., & Sanders, K. (2022). Police dispatch times: Social disorganization and
neighborhood disadvantage. Journal of Criminal Justice.