Dr. Henrika McCoy is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Fellow in Services to Children and Families and Associate Professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work (SHSSW) at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research broadly focuses on African Americans and the challenges they currently experience in society. She currently focuses much of her research on: 1) the intersection of mental health and juvenile delinquency, particularly how mental health issues precipitate the involvement of youth into the juvenile justice system and 2) the violent victimization experiences of young Black men ages 18 to 24.