Gaby Sroka is an Adjunct Professor in the Criminology Department at DePaul. She is currently a PhD candidate (ABD) at UIC, where she teaches a class on Courts & Society and serves as a Teaching Consultant at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence (CATE). Through her work at CATE, she obtained a Certificate in the Foundations of College Instruction and has led multiple workshops for new teaching assistants.
Her research interests include youth and the juvenile justice system, educational inequities, the school-prison nexus, and alternatives to punishment such as restorative and transformative justice. These research interests have largely been shaped by her work with youth across different settings and her own personal experiences with public schooling. For her dissertation, she plans to explore restorative justice (RJ) programming at Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
Here at DePaul, she will be teaching a class on Race, Class, Gender, and the Criminal Legal System.