Jill Sharkey, a Lecturer with Security of Employment in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, will take part in a panel of community experts discussing Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison on Thursday, March 19 at 6 pm at the Public Library, Carpinteria, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. The panel is part of the ninth annual UCSB Reads 2015, in which the campus and Santa Barbara communities are reading the same book, Piper Kerman's best-selling memoir Orange Is the New Black. The event is free and open to the public.
Other panelists include Jeremy Douglass, Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Yanira Rivas Pineda, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science.
Dr. Sharkey is a Lecturer in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology. In this position, Dr. Sharkey manages the School Psychology credential program and teaches and mentors doctoral students in the school psychology emphasis. Her research examines school engagement of students at-risk with a particular focus on juvenile delinquency and gang involvement. Recently Sharkey and her research team completed the technical report “Evaluation of Female-Specific Services: Transforming the Juvenile Justice Approach to Girls” that aims to transform services to youth on probation.