About the Authors of Lost Opportunities

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About the Authors of Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

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Nancy E. Walker, PhD, MLS, is President and Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Youth Policy Research and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. She has published numerous scholarly articles, law reviews, and policy analyses and is primary co-author of two books, The Child Witness: Legal Issues and Dilemma and Children’s Rights in the United States: In Search of a National Policy. Formerly, Dr. Walker was a faculty member at Creighton University and a visiting professor in the Psychology-Law Program at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

J. Michael Senger, JD, is Senior Staff Attorney of the Center for Youth Policy Research and has been in the private practice of law in Michigan for more than 20 years. He drafted legislation for ten years, first for the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives and later for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Mr. Senger also served as Legislative Counsel to the District of Columbia Council, as General Counsel of the District of Columbia Law Revision Commission, and as Probate Judge for Leelanau County, Michigan.

Francisco A. Villarruel, PhD, is Professor of Family and Child Ecology, Outreach Fellow, and Research Associate to the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University. He has published several scholarly articles on youth and is co-author of three books: Making Invisible Latino Adolescents Visible; Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices; and Promoting Community-Based Programs for Socialization and Learning. Organizations throughout the United States seek Dr. Villarruel’s expertise on Latino issues.

Angela M. Arboleda, BA, is the Civil Rights Policy Analyst at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). Ms. Arboleda is responsible for developing policy analyses, advocacy activities, and research on civil rights and criminal justice issues affecting Latinos in the United States. She often is the sole voice discussing the impact of criminal justice policy decisions on the Latino community at the national level. Ms. Arboleda is the author of Latinos in the Federal Criminal Justice System – a statistical brief on the status of Latinos in prison – and co-author of several publications on Latino civil rights issues, the most recent being, District of Columbia Responses to Youth Violence: Impact on the Latino Community.