Loretta
Capeheart, PhD
Associate Professor
Email: L-Capeheart@neiu.edu
Loretta
Capeheart is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Northeastern
Illinois University. She earned her Ph.D. at Texas Woman's University
majoring in Sociology with special attention to inequalities and social
change. Her current research includes the impact of social inequality
on the incarceration of Latinos and the development of psuedofamily
groups in women's prisons. She also serves on Senator Miguel Del Valle's
Latino Education Committee where she is analyzing the adequacy of programs
serving Latino and English as Second Language (ESL) students in Illinois'
Second Legislative District.
Dr. Capeheart is active in the anti-war/anti-occupation/anti-imperialist
movement and faculty advisor for the NEIU Socialist Club. She
has been an activist since the early 1980s when she worked on Jesse
Jackson's presidential campaign in South Texas. She has also been
active around issues of justice for women, the GLBT communities, Maquilladoras
(women working in sweat shops along the northern border of Mexico),
the United Farm Workers, and other social justice movements.