Noor Toraif

Boston University

Noor Toraif is a doctoral candidate at the BU School of Social Work and a graduate fellow at the BU Center for Antiracist Research. She earned her MA in child development at Tufts University, specializing in children and families’ programs and policies. Her research interests draw from Critical Race Theory to understand youths’ experiences in the US juvenile and criminal justice systems. She is interested in the experiences of youth who crossover from social service settings to the juvenile justice system. Her secondary interests include youth resistance to racism, community-level trauma, social welfare policy, and social theory.

Noor is currently involved in a number of projects, including a project on online racial discourse, a project on parents with intellectual disabilities and the child welfare system, a Youth Participatory Action Research project on health disparities, and a project on youth crossover experiences from child welfare to juvenile justice.

Areas of Expertise

• Crime and Punishment
• Law
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social Inequality or Stratification
• Social Policy
• Social Theory
• Social Work

Methodology

• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Ethnographic Methods
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Email:

ntoraif@bu.edu