Brandy Henry – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2016

Website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandy-henry-1a202216/

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School
Brandeis University

Undergraduate School
Boston University

Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University

Mentor
Ben Forman, MassINC, Rappaport Institute Advisory Board Member and Former Rappaport Policy Fellow

Agency
Massachusetts Department of Correction

Supervisor
Rhiana Kohl, Executive Director, Department of Strategic Planning and Research

Description of Fellowship
Dr. Henry recommendations for preventive and rehabilitative policies. Dr. Henry planned and implemented a study on the associations between trauma, mental health/substance use disorders and incarceration. The study shed new light on the recursive relationships between these factors and made recomendations for how policies might be implemented to disrupt pathways to incarceration. The study was published in the Journal of Community Psychology.