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Jessica Fagan is a first-year student in the Psychology & Law Ph.D. program at John Jay College. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from John Jay with a B.A. in Forensic Psychology and Criminology, and just couldn’t leave home. Working with Dr. Margaret Bull Kovera and Dr. Jacqueline Katzman, her research focuses on wrongful convictions, specifically legal decision-making in the context of eyewitness identification procedures. Her two current projects focus on eyewitness identification procedures. The first examines how disclosure that facial recognition technology (FRT) was used to generate suspects affects witnesses’ likelihood of choosing, the confidence and accuracy of those decisions, and how this impacts the risk of wrongful convictions. The second study investigates whether cross-examination can mitigate the effects of exposure to procedural bias on jurors during pre-trial and in-court identifications. Jessica has received the John Jay Psychology Department Overhead Grant for the FRT project and the AP-LS Undergraduate Grant-in-Aid Award for her cross-examination project. She was also recently honored with the Arthur and Elaine Niederhoffer Award at the John Jay B.A. Commencement Ceremony. Jessica is interested in a career that bridges academia and industry. She hopes to become a professor, jury trial consultant, and serve as an expert witness.