Jenifer Lee-Gonyea is currently an associate professor of criminology at Mount Saint Mary College, where she was awarded the Mount Saint Mary College Faculty Award for the 2019-2020 academic year. Her research focuses on the teaching and use of restorative justice, with more recent interests centering on the availability of restorative justice to racial and ethnic minorities and women, as well as the applicability of restorative justice in addressing serious harms. Her research has been published in Deviant Behavior, International Journal of Crime, Criminal Justice, and Law, and the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. She co-authored a chapter on the social and family influences on violent crime in Violent Crime: Clinical and Social Implications. Lee-Gonyea earned her doctorate in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, focusing on hate crimes for her dissertation. She previously worked for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.