Kimora

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Adjunct Professor
Social Sciences, Human Services and Criminal Justice

EMAIL: kimora@bmcc.cuny.edu

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PROFESSOR KIMORA
kimora@bmcc.cuny.edu

BIOGRAPHY

KIMORA has been a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in NYC since 2004. She also teaches “Corrections” at BMCC. She has been an elected member of the City University of New York’s (CUNY) University Faculty Senate (UFS) since 2011. She was honored to chair the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) during 2017-2018. She was re-elected to a second term on the Executive Committee (EC) of the CUNY University Faculty Senate this past May, 2019. Professor Kimora was re-elected to a third term to the Executive Committee (EC) of the CUNY University Faculty Senate (UFS) in May, 2020. She will be Chair of the UFS- Academic Freedom committee beginning in September, 2020.
During the spring of 2019, Professor Kimora initiated the Correctional Educational Academy (CEA) at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to promote research in the field of correctional education and to emphasize the need for more students to pursue a career as a correctional educator in prisons, jails, treatment programs and alternative-to-incarceration programs in the United States.
She teaches Corrections courses in the Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration Department (LPS) as well as the Graduate School at John Jay College and the HONORS program. She developed the curriculum for COR 397: Corrections and the Media. She also developed COR 395: Educating behind bars and Policy Implications, the FIRST college correctional education course in the United States. She also teaches two leadership courses that she designed in the Honors Program.
Kimora is an accomplished teacher in the classroom as well as online. In April, 2015, Criminal Justice Pursuit named her the best criminal justice professor in the United States. In 2012, Princeton Review named her the second best professor (of all professors) in the United States.
Professor Kimora’s research, publishing and teaching focus is on correctional educational programs for correctional officers as well as for participants in the jails and prisons in the United States. In March, 2015, Kimora published two books: 1) When Young People Break the Law: Debating Issues on Punishment for Juveniles and 2) Ethnic Profiling: A Modern Framework. In 2012, she presented research regarding the need for prevention and treatment services in the criminal justice system in Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Maribor in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Dr. Kimora is the Education Director for Treatment Services at the Osborne Association, which is a New York State based prison, re-entry and family services program.
Kimora has served on the Board of Directors of Reality House, Inc., a New York City advocacy group for veterans and their families since 2004. In 2017, she was unanimously elected Vice Chair of Reality House, Inc.
Kimora has a Ph. D. in Education from the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral dissertation entitled “The need for cognitive skills training in correctional vocational education programming” was published in the Yearbook of Correctional Education, 1998-1999.
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Expertise

My areas of EXPERTISE are:

-Correctional Education

-Corrections

-Ethics

-Leadership

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Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Education, University of Minnesota
  • Master of Arts in Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses Taught

CRJ 202 (Corrections)
CRJ 200 (Constitutional Law)
CRJ 102 (Criminology)

Research and Projects

Correctional Education Academy (CEA)

Publications

Kimora ,editor, (March, 2015). Ethnic Profiling: a Modern Framework. New York and Amsterdam: International Debate Education Association.

Karsten J. Struhl and Kimora, editors (March, 2015) When Young People Break the Law: Debating Issues on Punishment for Juveniles. New York and Amsterdam: International Debate Education Association.

Kimora, (March, 2013). “The work of Jerome H. Skolnick: a pioneer in policing” in Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. Taylor and Francis Group.

Kobilinsky, L. and Danielle Sapse (Eds.) (spring, 2011), Trends in Legal Aspects of Methamphetamine  in Advances in Forensic Science and Applications of the Judiciary System. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

  • BMCC Distinguished Teaching Award, 2020
  • Criminal Justice Pursuit, Best Criminal Justice Professor in the United States, 2015
  • Princeton Review, Second Best Professor in the United States, 2012

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