Arizona State University expert directory

Dr. Monte-Angel Richardson's research interests are firearm violence prevention within diverse and Latine(a/o/x) communities in the US Southwest, countering violent extremism, trauma-informed practices, and transformative justice models. 

Combining social work and public health approaches at the local, state, national, and international levels, Monte-Angel focuses on the prevention of firearm violence and interruption of the processes that permeate trauma within marginalized populations and communities. At Arizona State University, she is a member of the BRIDGS Initiative, Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society. Her recent research includes a multi-methods study pertaining to firearm violence prevention efforts among service providers and organizers in the US Southwest. Monte-Angel is interested in innovative research methods that engage communities in the formulation of both the results and the problem, including participatory mapping, place-based research, and mixed methods study design. She is particularly motivated to investigate the ways that communities and individuals come together to resolve issues pertaining to violence through empirical examination of concepts such as collective efficacy and community organizing.