Resilience and Well-Being Task Force

Tammy Giannini is a proud graduate of Stanislaus State and the staff co-chair of the Resilience and Well-Being Task Force. She has been a staff member at Stanislaus for the last 25 years, after starting as a student assistant in the Associated Students. She has also been a union steward for APC for the last seven years, representing Stanislaus staff who belong in Unit 4. Currently, she is the Lead Advisor in the Academic Success Center. She finds her work with students incredibly rewarding, especially working with students experiencing academic challenges. She is looking forward to the work of the Resilience and Well-Being Task Force and the positive effects this could have on the lives of students, staff and faculty.

Steven Wood, an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, is the faculty co-chair of the Resilience and Well-Being Task Force. He has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses at Stanislaus State, including courses on research methods, policy and program evaluation, criminological theory, the history of police and prisons, crime victims, forensic psychology, and scientific evidence and the law. He has a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from San Diego State University, a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from the City University of New York’s (CUNY) John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the CUNY Graduate Center. As a doctoral student studying prison oversight and reform in post-apartheid South Africa, he was the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Student Award. Wood has worked in several research settings in New York City including the New York State Psychiatric Institute, NYU School of Social Work, Vera Institute of Justice, and as a post-doctoral fellow in substance abuse research at the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. His scholarly interests are in the areas of prison oversight mechanisms and prisoner violence as evidenced by publications in the International Criminal Justice Review and International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, Crime and Delinquency, and The Prison Journal.