Leslie Cuddy received her Master of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During her time at UNCG she studied what people in the piedmont triad were doing to mitigate the lethal impact of the opioid epidemic. Her primary areas of interest are within the Criminal Justice System – specifically, punishment and rehabilitation, carceral institutions, crimes of the powerful, and criminal justice processes. When not in the classroom, Leslie enjoys discovering craft breweries with her husband and snuggling with her fur child, Dingo.