Liberty Macías is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. Macías earned her Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from High Point University and attended Colorado State University for her Master's in Sociology. Her thesis focuses on public perceptions of survival crimes and punitive attitudes toward individuals committing crimes out of necessity. Her broader research interests include communities and crime, correctional programming, reentry support, criminal justice reform, and quantitative methods.

Faculty Advisor: Kate Auerhahn