Dr. Joss Greene is a qualitative researcher who studies gender, punishment, labor, and social change.  He has researched transgender people’s experiences with prisons, reentry, work, and community care.  He has also written several papers about parole boards. He has published articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Theoretical Criminology, and Theory & Society, among other journals.  His book, which recovers and analyzes 80 years of queer/trans life inside California prisons, is under contract with the University of California Press.  He has two new projects: (1) exploring the experiences of trans women of color in low-wage labor markets, and (2) studying the dynamics of social movement activism during the COVID-19 pandemic.