Jordyn Ricard received her B.S. from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University in 2020. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a post-baccalaureate research assistant in Dr. Matthew Nock’s lab where she studied the relationship between early adversity and suicide risk. Jordyn is interested in investigating how community violence exposure shapes mental health outcomes and exploring how structural interventions can mitigate these effects, with the goal of building safer communities, improving well-being, and reducing pathways into the legal system.
