Dr. Caterina Roman has won the CLA Faculty Award for Excellence in Community Engagement. Dr. Roman has contributed to community engagement in three main areas: violence reduction, reentry, and community health. Put simply, she serves as a role model for community-engaged scholarship not only for faculty and students in CLA and at Temple, but also for criminologists and researchers across the country. The meaning and power of Dr. Roman’s work shines through when both organizations and university leaders speak about these efforts.

For examples, in the words of Judith Dederick, director of the community-based reentry organization OUTSIDE:

Professor Roman brings enthusiasm, dedication, expertise, and seemingly endless energy to her contributions to the reentry world. She is a vital resource for those of us ‘in the trenches’ of that world...

And, in the words of Temple President Richard Englert:

The work you have been doing has been integral to Temple’s mission to improve the overall well-being in the neighborhoods surrounding the University’s Main and Health Science campuses….the contributions you and your colleagues make to North Philadelphia are amazing...