Jordan Dyett is an Assistant Professor at the Division of
Social Work, University of Wyoming. She graduated from Westminster University
with a B.A. and received her M.S.W. and Ph.D. from the State University of New
York at Albany. She has direct practice experience with system(s)-impacted
youth, youth with disabilities, and supporting individuals with substance use
histories and criminal (in)justice involvement. Informed by her practice
experience, her research focuses on exploring ways to interrupt carceral
violence that communities who have been impacted by the war on drugs face. Using
community-based participatory methods, her research aims are to amplify and
uplift community resilience and strategies for reducing substance-related
harms.