Tanyanne Ball joined �Թϱ��� University as an Adjunct Lecturer in 2025. Her professional background - including serving as a police officer in the UK, working as a Research Assistant for the Federal Monitor’s NYPD body-camera project, and holding HR roles in charter schools in East New York - has shaped her research interests in policing as a gendered institution, transformative dialogic processes, relationality, and culture change within law enforcement. She holds a BA in History of Art & French from University College London and an MSc in Forensic Investigation from Teesside University. Currently in the final year of her PhD in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate Center/John Jay College of Criminal Justice, she is deeply committed to scholarship and teaching. After teaching her first college-level class in 2021, she developed a passion for undergraduate criminal justice education, which continues to shape her academic interests.