Tina Johnson, MA

Cure Violence, University of Illinois at Chicago
School of Public Health
1603 W Taylor Street
Chicago, IL
USA 60612
Email: tjohnso7@uic.edu

Biographical Sketch: Tina Johnson is a Research Specialist at the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention - CeaseFire, which is part of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois. She works on a variety of research projects and evaluation tasks at the organization, including studying possible indicators of violence in high crime areas and how the CeaseFire school program impacts attitudes toward violence in students. Tina is also pursuing her PhD in Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a concentration in violence studies. Elise Wisnieski is a Research Specialist at the Chicago Project for Violence prevention. She is responsible for designing and implementing qualitative and quantitative projects, gathering and reporting crime, programmatic, and demographic data, and mapping. Elise received an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and is currently pursuing a Survey Research Methods Certification at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Papers:
3273.0 Attitude and behavior change measurement: Development of a measure to assess positive attitudinal and behavior change among cure violence clients 4174.0 Violence interruption: Understanding the causes, characteristics, and outcomes of potentially lethal neighborhood conflicts