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Laurie Garo
Lecturer
OFFICE: 417 McEniry
PHONE: 704-687-5981
E-MAIL: lagaro@uncc.edu
HOMEPAGE:
SHORT VITAE: To be added later
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• GIScience & Technology
• Cartography
• Crime Analysis & Mapping
• Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
DEGREES:
MA. (1984) Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. (1978) Geography, University of California-Los Angeles
PROFILE:
I am a lecturer and researcher specializing in Crime Analysis and
Mapping using GIS but also with extensive teaching, production and
project management experience in Cartography. I serve as a research
analyst and community outreach specialist for the Department of
Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods, where I make use of
police, sheriff, corrections, school, social, health, and juvenile
justice data, plus interviews, and site visits with community residents
and non-profit organizations to study root causes of juvenile delinquency
and to recommend, write grants for, and evaluate intervention and
prevention strategies from culture, gender and faith-relevant perspectives.
I have a heart for service to the intervention and prevention of
juvenile delinquency, with special compassion for those youth who
find themselves most marginalized and disenfranchised from school,
community, peers and society at large, and those who are system-involved.
In this light, I have established the Youth Leadership Academy,
a grant funded youth empowerment initiative that prepares young
people with the practical skills to become productive, self-fulfilled
and achievement-oriented adults and community leaders.
I have an MA in Cartography (Geography) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
a total of 18 years experience in university teaching, training
and project management. Nine of those years were overseas in Kenya
and in Papua New Guinea where I developed a keen sense for the integral
roles that culture and faith play in children’s healthy development
and in the sustenance of community as a whole.
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