Melanie Brazzell is a Sociology graduate student who will defend their dissertation on gender violence and the transformative justice movement, supported by the Center for Engaged Scholarship, in the first week of September. Melanie has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. They will be working with the organizational sociologist Elizabeth McKenna on extending the "Building Structure Shapes" project, which they developed from 2020-2022 in conjunction with the P3 Lab at Johns Hopkins University and the Realizing Democracy Project.