Me
AUTHOR · RESEARCHER · EDUCATOR
Dr. Maurice Vann, Ph.D.
Connecting people, research, and stories to build safer, more caring communities.
THE NEW BOOK
Loss, Grief, and Community-Safety
A Graphic Novel from Baltimore, Circa 2015
A story of family, remembrance, and the shared work of building a safer community. Drawing on lived experiences in Baltimore, this graphic novel invites families, educators, and communities into conversations about loss, healing, and belonging.
What Can I Do?
I design, lead, and evaluate programs at the intersection of social work, education, community safety, and justice-system reform. My work includes:
- Designing and evaluating community-based programs for justice-impacted youth, young adults, returning citizens, and their families.
- Conducting qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and computational social science research.
- Developing curricula and teaching in social welfare policy, research methods, forensic social work, reentry, desistance, and multidisciplinary approaches to community safety.
- Building immersive learning, virtual-reality, data-visualization, digital-storytelling, and educational-animation projects.
- Advising organizations and public agencies on violence prevention, restorative practices, reentry, educational equity, and community-centered safety.
- Delivering scholarly presentations, keynote addresses, workshops, and public-facing educational content.
