Carla Marquez-Lewis, Academic Director for the Psychology Program, has spent over two decades years within the CUNY system. In addition to receiving her PhD in Psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center, she has taught within the Psychology departments at Lehman College and John Jay College of Criminal Justice before moving to CUNY SPS 10 years ago. Dr. Marquez-Lewis also spent time in California as a full-time faculty member at Fresno Pacific University and simultaneously, as a part-time faculty member at the University of California, Merced. Her research has focused on wishful thinking, collaborative remembering, eyewitness testimony, violent crime, identity, parole practices in New York State, and hurdles/facilitators to post-incarceration reentry for those incarcerated for long terms.