About the Author

 "Only neurotic, castrating, Manhattan career bitches

wear black. Is that what you want to be?"

"Ever since I was a little girl."

Anna Giannicchi recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She has previously conducted research for the Injection Drug User Health Alliance, the New York City Department of Probation, and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. While attending school, Anna proudly served John Jay College's initiative "From Punishment to Public Health (P2PH)" - a consortium of academic, policy and direct service organizations joined together to design and expand systemic preventive interventions that reduce incarceration and enhance public health safety in New York City - from 2013 to 2018. She completed her graduate externship at Bellevue Hospital and was a part of the Pinkerton Fellowship's fifth cohort. Anna is currently employed as a counselor at College & Community Fellowship, a trauma-informed, gender-specific organization working to make higher education accessible to justice-involved women. She is also conducting research for the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Anna is a professional singer and plans to pursue her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a forensic focus.