Jorja Leap
{{short description|American anthropologist}}
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Jorja Leap is an American anthropologist and adjunct professor in the social welfare department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also Director of the Health and Social Justice Partnership at UCLA and is a nationally recognized gang expert.{{citation|url=http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2012/03/14/25582/violence-drugs-love-and-redemption-in-the-la-gang- |title=Violence, drugs, love and redemption in the LA gang life|date=March 14, 2012|publisher=KPCC}}{{citation|magazine=Pacific Standard|title=Gangster Anthropologist: Jorja Leap / Youth violence researcher / University of California, Los Angeles|first=Vince|last=Beiser|date=September 11, 2012|url=https://psmag.com/education/gangster-anthropologist-46354}}
In 2011, Leap was named one of Los Angeles Magazine's Action Heroes for her policy work and gang intervention efforts in the Los Angeles area.{{citation|magazine=Los Angeles Magazine|url=http://www.lamag.com/features-hidden/the-action-heroes/|title=The Action Heroes|first=Ann|last=Herold|date=October 1, 2011}}
Los Angeles Magazine named her as one of the "50 Most Influential Women in Los Angeles" in 2012,
and in the same year she won the Joseph Nunn Alumna of the Year award at UCLA.{{citation|title=Jorja Leap|publisher=UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs|accessdate=2018-02-25|url=https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/jorja-leap/}}
Early life
Education and career
Leap completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees from UCLA. In 1978, she received a B.A. in Sociology. In 1980, she earned a master's degree in social work, and in 1988 she received a Ph.D. in psychological anthropology.{{citation|url=https://optimists.ucla.edu/stories/jorja-leap/|title=Jorja Leap: How to succeed in leaving gang life|work=The Optimists|publisher=University of California, Los Angeles|accessdate=2018-02-25}} Her dissertation, under the name Jorja Jeane Manos Prover, was Culture-makers: Hollywood writers as an American elite.
She was a lecturer at California State University, Fullerton from 1980 to 1990, and at the University of Southern California from 1990 to 1992, before joining UCLA as a lecturer in 1992.
Books
In 1994, under the name Jorja Prover, Leap published the book No One Knows Their Names: Screenwriters in Hollywood.See [https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/jorja-leap/ Leap's UCLA profile] for Leap's connection to this book. Review of No One Knows Their Names:
- {{citation|journal=Visual Anthropology Review|first=Emilie|last=De Brigard|title=Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies/No One Knows Their Names: Screenwriters in Hollywood|volume=11|issue=2|pages=112–113|doi=10.1525/var.1995.11.2.112|date=September 1995}}
In March 2012, Leap published Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption.Reviews of Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption:
- {{citation|title=Jumped In|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8070-4456-8|magazine=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{citation|title=Jumped In|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jorja-leap/jumped-in/|magazine=Kirkus Reviews|date=March 6, 2012}}
- {{citation|title=Jumped In|url=https://www.nacdl.org/Champion.aspx?id=27424|magazine=The Champion|publisher=National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers|first=Michelle|last=Inderbitzin|date=March 2013|page=60}}
- {{citation|title=Jumped In|url=http://ourweekly.com/news/2012/jun/20/book-review-jumped-in-what-gangs-taught-me-about/|magazine=Our Weekly|date=June 20, 2012|first=Terri|last=Schichenmeyer}}
In 2015, she published Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities.Reviews of Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities:
- {{citation|title=Project Fatherhood|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8070-1452-3|magazine=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{citation|title=Project Fatherhood|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jorja-leap/project-fatherhood/|magazine=Kirkus Reviews|date=June 9, 2015}}
- {{citation|title=Project Fatherhood|url=https://www.nacdl.org/champion.aspx?id=43111|magazine=The Champion|publisher=National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers|date=July 2016|page=61|first=Bob|last=Lindemeier}}
- {{citation|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|title=Jorja Leap sheds light on Watts' black fathers in 'Project Fatherhood'|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-0606-jorja-leap-20150602-story.html|first=Tre'vell|last=Anderson|date=June 11, 2015}}
References
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External links
- [http://jorjaleap.com/ Home page]
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