Janice Johnson Dias PhD

President and Co-Founder of the GrassROOTS Community Foundation

Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Graduate Faculty in the Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Post Doctoral Fellow at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

PhD in Sociology with specialization in urban and political sociology, Temple University

BA in Sociology, Brandeis University