Jacey is a Research Program Coordinator in the Division of Suicide Research and Healing in the Comprehensive Injury Center. Through this role, she collects, manages, and analyzes data surrounding suicide risk and protective factors and suicide prevention measures. Her work in MTOP primarily involves suicide prevention in the trauma center setting. Her career goals include gaining entrance into a PhD program in Clinical Psychology and eventually conducting her own research and working clinically with underserved populations. Her research interests broadly include suicidology and suicide prevention, implementation and evaluation of culturally competent mental health care, and forensic psychology. Specifically, she is interested in the impacts of involvement in the criminal justice system and incarceration on mental health and suicide risk, discrimination as a mediator for suicide risk and behavior among minority populations, particularly within the LGBTQ+ community, and the effects of repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) on long-term mental health and suicide risk. She is passionate about implementing upstream suicide prevention measures and leveraging data to influence policy change, increase access to mental health care for marginalized groups, and enact systems-level change. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her rescue pitty, Carmen, reading, watching reality TV, cheering on the Chicago Cubs, and attending concerts, music festivals, and drag shows.

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