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Technical Session: Measure It, but Who Will Come? Measuring Equity and including Diverse Travel Populations
Exploring Transportation Needs, Barriers and Meanings among Former Prisoners and Community-Based Service Providers
About the Presenter
Anne Nordberg
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Anne Nordberg is an Associate Professor of Social Work at The University of Texas at Arlington. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar with a joint PhD in Anthropology and Social work from the University of Michigan, Dr. Nordberg serves vulnerable populations through research endeavors and as an educator. Her research is focused on exploring transportation disadvantage among criminal justice-involved people and other related environmental justice populations including people experiencing homelessness, people living with health and mental health problems, and people suffering with addictions. Her work is focused on innovative intervention strategies at the individual and system levels. Theoretically, she is interested in how a holistic consideration of mobility may be leveraged as lens for social justice praxis and policy reform. She is part of a strong team of scholars at UT Arlington including social workers, engineers, and criminologists whose collaborations seeks to advance each of our respective disciplines in novel and effective ways.