This fall, the UnLocked Project is hosting a panel event themed around reentry and its impact on families and children of incarcerated parents.

• Dr. Kevin Roy: Dr. Roy is a professor at UMD who works with low income families and community based parenting programs. He is well known for his research evaluating fatherhood and adulthood, and has explored incarceration and its impacts on men, as well many other influences.
• Dr. John Hart: With a Ph.D. in Family Science from UMD, Dr. Hart works with prisons and jails to help improve incarceration systems and address causes of incarceration. He provides counseling and support through trauma-informed therapy to families with at-risk youth. Dr. Hart has also been prominent in the research field at the Vera Institute, conducting meaningful work evaluating the reentry of young, Black fathers post-incarceration.
• Waunita Scott: Ms. Scott provides reentry housing services in Baltimore to help individuals following release from incarceration. Having lived experience with a justice involved parent and loved one during her childhood, Ms. Scott has expertise and valuable personal insights.
• Carmelle Norice: Dr. Carmelle T. Norice, MD-PhD, is a personally impacted justice reform advocate and lead volunteer for Love Justice, a prison and reentry mission of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. She also serves on the Board of The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice. An accomplished Clinical Director for a global biopharmaceutical company, Dr. Norice represents the resilience and capability achieved by children of incarcerated parents.

• Date: October 27, 2025
• Time: 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
• Location: Stamp Student Union
• Room: Thurgood Marshall Room