Jadaera Lorenzo is a first-year doctoral student in the Psychology and Law program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in forensic psychology at John Jay’s accelerated dual-degree program, January 2022. As an undergraduate, Jadaera was selected as a National Science Foundation Fellow, conducting research under the mentorship of Dr. Jaihyun Park, and examining how verbal framing influences mock jurors’ perceptions and legal decisions using footage from police body-worn cameras. She also worked with Dr. Yuchen Hou in developing a national database of U.S police shootings of 2015 to identify multilevel factors that may differentially contribute to the opportunities for fatal and non-fatal police shootings. After graduating, Jadaera worked at The Fortune Society, studying the desistance process among individuals recently released from New York State prisons and under parole supervision in various boroughs of New York City. At John Jay, Jadaera is working with Dr. Deryn Strange and Dr. Kelly McWilliams, and plans to continue her research on body-worn cameras, legal decision-making, social-cognition, and memory distortions.