Graduate Research Associate
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Ashura Hughley received his Master of Social Work from Long Island University Brooklyn. He is a doctoral student at the Ohio State University and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Ashura has worked with transition-age youth in community mental health at Wellnest in Los Angeles, California, and with justice-involved youth at Brooklyn Defender Services in Brooklyn, New York. Ashura’s research interest is criminal and juvenile justice, complex trauma, and faith-based mental health interventions among Black and Afro-Latinx youth and young adults. He would like to address policy, create alternatives to incarceration programming for youth, and develop culturally appropriate trauma-informed mental health interventions.
Ashura is a recipient of the 2015-2016 NASW Verne LaMar Lyons Memorial Scholarship and the 2021-2022 ENGIE-Axium Curriculum Practicum Training Scholarship (EA-CPT). He co-authored “Perceptions of sexual risk and HIV/STI prevention among Black adolescent girls in a detention center: An investigation of the role of parents and peers” in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities [IF:2.145].
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM