Gina Fedock is an Associate Professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. Her research agenda builds on scholarship that regards the criminal legal system as embodying forms of gendered and racialized social control. Across this work, she highlights the role of institutional and system-related sources of suffering for women, and points to new directions, especially for the field of social work, regarding needed multi-level interventions to improve women’s mental health and wellbeing. One of her current studies uses a reproductive justice framework to examine how incarcerated women employ strategies of resistance to navigate dehumanizing barriers to parenting and reclaim their right to parent with dignity.