Rate My Professor Rebecca Rivera Serrano

Dr. Rivera-Serrano earned her Doctor of Education from Creighton University in 2016, with a dissertation titled 'Identifying the Practices that Reduce Criminality Through Community-based Post-secondary Correctional Education.' She holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Colorado Denver in 2004, with concentrations in domestic violence, program management, and policy development, and a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology from the University of Denver in 1997. With 17 years of university-level teaching experience, she has served as Lead Professor in Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Administration at Colorado State University Global Campus since 2020, Affiliate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology at Metropolitan State University of Denver since 2006, Criminal Justice Instructor at Denver Public Schools and Jefferson County Public Schools, Honorarium Faculty at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and Instructor at Red Rocks Community College. Her research interests center on correctional education practices that reduce recidivism, reflected in a publication in a special edition of the International Journal of Educational Department. Currently, she is a board member for the Second Chances Center, promoting prison and criminal justice reform alongside victim-centered initiatives.