Stefanie is a graduate student with the Criminal Justice Department at CSUSB. She is currently the lead student research assistant on the P.A.C.T. research project. Her responsibilities include organizing the collection of data (including the use of the global positioning system), creating and cleaning the database, helping with the geographic analysis of the data and report writing. She is currently working on the GAPS project based in Lexington, KY research project under the direction of Dr. Bichler, spatially analyzing open-air drug markets, auto theft, street robberies and commercial burglary to ascertain temporal geographic crime patterns. Her Masters’ Thesis topic examines these environmental and situational factors associated with narcotics in Lexington, KY. Future goals include a position as a crime analyst at a Police Department and later pursing a Ph.D.