Shanna Jaggers joined the Center for HOPE in 2021 as a Programs Manager. She holds a Master's in Public Administration, Graduate Certificate in Organization Leadership, and a Bachelors in Sociology with a minor in Social Work from Western Kentucky University. She also has a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification from Purdue University. In 2018 Shanna and her family moved from Indiana to Utah, where she started as a Research Analyst for the Social Research Institute in the College of Social Work. She worked with multiple state agencies on program improvement and implementation and assessments related to youth substance use treatment and delinquency.
Shanna's research interests are related to behavioral and mental health outcomes for underserved populations, child welfare evaluation, and program implementation. She has worked for the Indiana Supreme Court and Indiana Department of Children's Services on program evaluation and data analysis. She was also a certified Child & Family Services Review (CFSR) evaluator for the Children's Bureau.
When she is not doing research (which she loves doing), she spends time outside taking pictures. She hates being indoors and would rather climb a mountain or get the truck stuck in the mud. She has three dogs, (Great Dane, Mini Schnauzer, and English Bulldog). Her husband and daughter have a snake, which she tolerates.