Carissa is a Ph.D. student whose research focuses on wrongful convictions, innocence narratives, and prison literature in the United States. Her work examines how incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals use storytelling to challenge carceral power. Her broader research interests include carceral studies, archival studies, and narrative theory, with a particular interest in how counter-narratives contest state narratives of criminality.

B.A. in English from Binghamton University

B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Law from Binghamton University