Sociologist, Criminologist, and Founder of 365 Diversity

Dr. Dennis is a sociologist who lives with epilepsy. As a community advocate, educator, and qualitative researcher, Dennis’ research focuses on racial and ethnic justice, socioeconomic justice, health justice, gender justice, sexuality justice, and reproductive justice for minoritized and underserved people. She collaborates with — and contributes to — communities, organizations, and K-12 schools and colleges-universities to improve materials, resources, services, and consistent outcomes. This includes cultural-collective-community-family health outreach; teaching and training medical and health students and professionals; job skills and economic development; cultural-collective-community-family education outreach; changing school curriculum and course materials; and conducting 6-month or annual assessments for policies and results.

Also, for college students and communities, she teaches the Sociology of Medicine and the Sociology of Mental Health, and epilepsy is addressed when she teaches both courses. She also created We Need H.E.L.P. for her business to better teach and train medical and health students and professionals. Listed below are also some of the areas in which she is an expert:

• Community advocacy
• Medical and health equity
• Suicide and suicidal self-harm
• Mental health
• Disabilities
• Police-court-penal
• K-12 curriculum and course materials
• College curriculum and course materials
• Academic program evaluations and assessments
• Policy, procedure, budget, law evaluations and assessments