Denise Herz, Ph.D., currently serves as the Associate Dean for the Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services at California State University, Los Angeles. Prior to serving in this capacity, she was a Professor in and Director of the School of Criminal Justice & Criminalistics at Cal State Los Angeles. Dr. Herz has been actively engaged in research locally and nationally since 1996. Her primary area of research is in juvenile justice, with a particular emphasis on integrating systems to improve outcomes for youth who touch both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems (dual system youth). Since arriving in Los Angeles in 2002, Dr. Herz has worked regularly with Los Angeles County agencies to improve practices for dual system youth and to assess Probation practices and programs in order to improve outcomes for all Probation-involved youth. She currently serves as Co-PI for the OJJDP Dual Systems Youth Study and Co-Research Director for the City of Los Angeles Gang Reduction and Youth Development Office. At the national level, she served as a consultant to the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, participating in many initiatives including but not limited to leading the development and implementation of the Crossover Youth Practice Model Research Component. Dr. Herz received her MA and Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Maryland at College Park.