Marissa Hawrylez

Marissa Hawrylez is the Research Support Assistant at CERC Migration. She holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a graduate degree in Criminology and Social Justice from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her Master’s research focused on how the Canadian state formulates the socio-political policies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism through tough-on-crime trajectories, zero-tolerance policies and mandatory minimum sentences, and the local implications of these punitive measures in First Nations communities throughout Canada. 

Following her graduate degree, Marissa served as a research assistant on two projects for Toronto Metropolitan University’s Criminology department and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, where she helped produce a White Paper for the Toronto Police Service and an Officer Body-Worn Camera Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She has served as a volunteer for Evangel Hall Mission Homeless Shelter, Innocence Canada and on the Student Union and Department Council at TMU.