Mickela Heilicher

Email: Heilicher@wisc.edu

B.A., Psychology, University of Puget Sound

Mickela (they/she) is currently a PhD student in the UW Integrated Graduate Major (IGM) program. Their work focuses on prioritizing and incorporating the experiences/perspectives of individuals with lived experience of incarceration when conducting research aimed at improving mental health and reentry resources for people currently or formerly incarcerated. Based on input from those with lived experience of incarceration, they are also interested in the role that language and labels (e.g., non-person-centered language) play in perpetuating the stigma associated with incarceration, especially within published scholarly work. In her free time, she likes to spend time with her cat, Winston, and play Ultimate Frisbee.