Danielle Russell, PhD Candidate
Danielle Russell holds an AAS from Gateway Community College, and a BS and an MS in Justice Studies from ASU. She is currently a PhD candidate at Arizona State University, where she studies how the criminalization of substances used for personal pleasure has become a key issue and tool for social control, contributing to the ongoing legacy of racialized criminalization and mass incarceration in the U.S.
Having personally experienced many of the harms that impact people who use illicit drugs, she is passionate about mutual aid and working to change the structures that impose harms on the bodies of drug users. Her research interests are oriented towards community-based participatory research.