Mr. Jason Anthony Plummer, MSW, MUP research focuses on political social work and sociopolitical youth development, with an emphasis on how race, election laws, and policing shape the political behavior/civic engagement of youth. He received his B.A. in psychology from Baruch College, CUNY, and both his master’s in social work and urban planning are from the University of Michigan.  He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Social Work and author of Families in the Urban Environment: Understanding resiliency (Cognella, 2018). Currently, he is a doctoral student in social welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.