Cherrell Green, PhD

Cherrell Green, PhD, serves as a Research Consultant on a study exploring how victims, survivors, and their family members experience and view resentencing processes (“second look” policies) in Washington, DC, contributing to a broader understanding of how these processes are perceived by those directly impacted.

Her research focuses on the impacts of interpersonal violence and structural inequities in Black communities, with particular attention to how Black men experience and navigate trauma, system involvement, and pathways to healing. She uses community-based participatory research and trauma-informed qualitative methods to center lived experience in the study of violence, recovery, and structural harm, translating findings into actionable strategies that strengthen practitioner capacity, inform policy and practice, and advance more equitable approaches to community safety. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and practice-oriented reports, contributing to equity-centered approaches to violence prevention, trauma, and public safety reform.

Dr. Green earned a doctorate in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her dissertation, “I Been Through a Storm a Lot of People Wouldn’t Have Came Out Of”: Examining Resiliency Among Black Men Exposed to Violence (ETV), explores how Black men exposed to cumulative violence and trauma navigate adversity over the life course.