Dr. Cook has been a faculty member of the LAM Collective at the Ohio Reformatory for Women since the spring of 2024. Her research and writing focus on the evolution of public safety and punishment in the US in the age of incarceration. Dr. Cook teaches history courses at the Columbus campus as well as at Ohio state prisons as part of OPEEP. She is a southern queen who believes in the liberatory power of transformative education and working with folks directly impacted by the US criminal legal system to build beloved communities.