Felicia Henry

Felicia A. Henry is an artivist-scholar whose research expertise includes race, ethnicity, gender, class, carceral studies, arts-based activism, critical criminology, disasters and the environment, and social vulnerability. A recent alum of the University of Delaware, she is a National Science Foundation Law and Society Dissertation Grant awardee, Bill Anderson Fund fellow, Disaster Research Center affiliate, Recipient of the University of Delaware Unidel Award in Sociology and Criminal Justice, and Unidel Distinguished Graduate Scholar Award, and the Corlett Nagel Family Disaster Research Center Enrichment Fund Award. Her work has been funded by the University of Delaware and Arnold Ventures Foundation and published in various journals, such as Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research, Critical Criminology, Social Science and Humanities Open, Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Environmental Justice. She has also published on public-facing platforms such as WHYY and Medium. Additionally, Henry is the founder of Behind the Walls, Between the Lines–a movement to deepen the awareness of the legacy of racial inequity in America, particularly within the criminal legal system, and inspire activism aimed at its dismantlement.