Alexa Cinque

Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Alexa Cinque is a doctoral student at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her research focuses on the carceral system, system-impacted communities, and the interplay of decarceration policy and transformative justice practices. This work emphasizes the expertise and centrality of community stakeholders in developing policy and community-based approaches to reducing system impact and community harm through community-engaged research. She has previous experience working on legal defense mitigation, data-driven prosecutorial policy implementation, and court-based research and policy advocacy. Alexa also holds an AM in social work from Crown, as well as a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan.