Team Bios

Dasha Shamrova, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work

Dr. Dasha Shamrova is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Wichita State University. Dr. Shamrova holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from Michigan State University. Her community-based research focuses on children and youth participation in decision-making, children's rights implementation, and children and youth agency and voice. In addition, Dr. Shamrova's research explores the relationship of child poverty, mental health, and well-being in diverse cultural contexts. Dr. Shamrova practices organizational social work with the emphasis on nonprofit capacity to evaluate their programs, especially in the child welfare system. She provides training for community and nonprofit organizations in the areas of evidence-based practice, children's participation in organizational decision-making, program design, evaluation, and data analysis, as well as participatory evaluation methodologies with children and youth.

Breanna Boppre, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice

Dr. Breanna Boppre is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the School of Criminal Justice at Wichita State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2018. She was honored as an Outstanding Graduate from her university. Dr. Boppre also earned her M.S. in Criminal Justice from Portland State University and her B.A.(hon) in Criminal Justice from the University of Nevada, Reno.

Dr. Boppre’s research assesses how victimization, adversity, and trauma lead to system-involvement. She critically examines legal and carceral responses, and the impacts of such responses on system-involved individuals and their families. Much of her work uses a gendered and intersectional lens. Dr. Boppre seeks to amplify the voices of system-impacted people through her scholarship. Her research appears in numerous peer-reviewed outlets including Justice Quarterly, the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research, Feminist Criminology, and Victims & Offenders.

Amy Kalb, DSW

Assistant Professor and BSW Program Director in the School of Social Work

Dr. Amy Kalb is an Assistant Professor and the BSW Program Director in the School of Social Work. Dr. Kalb received a BSW from Valparaiso University in 1997 and an MSW from the University of Michigan in 1999 with an emphasis on Community Organizing and Children and Families. She has over 10 years of clinical practice experience in child welfare, family violence, and hospice care. She completed her DSW in 2017 from Capella University. Her dissertation was focused on resilience and middle school girls utilizing photography with the Photovoice methodology. Dr. Kalb began teaching in 2008 as an adjunct instructor at Aurora University and began as full-time instructor at Abilene Christian University in 2015 before joining the School’s faculty in 2017.

Dr. Kalb is interested in utilizing simulation and experiential activities in practice courses. Her teaching at WSU is primarily in the Bachelor’s Program focused on practice classes and in the Graduate Program on various special topics such as practice with adolescent girls and sports in Social Work. She was a member of an Inter-Professional Education (IPE) Committee, presenting her IPE research nationally and internationally. Dr. Kalb continues to expand her research in utilizing Photovoice in projects that focus on empowerment of youth. Dr. Kalb is engaged in community and professional activities and has provided continuing education events around the discussion of ethics and the utilization of Photovoice.

Madison Davis

Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Criminal Justice

Madison Davis is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Criminal Justice at Wichita State University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Wichita State in December 2019 and will graduate with her Master of Arts in Criminal Justice in May 2021.

Madison serves as the Co-president of Wichita State’s Criminal Justice Student Association. She is passionate about social justice issues and enjoys working with children and adolescents. Madison is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Joanna Lampe

Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Social Work

Joana is in her last semester of her master's degree in social work. After she graduates, she hopes to go on and obtain a PhD in social work to influence policy with her research, and to educate the social workers of tomorrow. She is passionate about social justice and amplifying the voices of those society tends to listen to the least.

In her free time Joana enjoys long walks with her dog Elsa.

Rosalind Canare

Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Psychology Department

Rosalind is a native Texan, having spent the first 26 years of her life divided between Dallas, Houston, and Austin. She eventually left Texas and spent four years in the Army where she worked for two years in Northern Italy, one year in a medium security military prison in Tacoma, Washington, and her final year in Kandahar, Afghanistan. After the Army, she stayed in Tacoma to finish her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Pacific Lutheran University. From there, she worked for several years before pursuing a PhD at Wichita State University in Community Psychology.

Rosalind’s Master’s thesis focused on using food as a metric for quality of life for people who are incarcerated. Her professional goals are to test, analyze, and change existing policy such that we may actually get the results we are seeking from our laws and policies. Aside from criminal justice, her research interests include economic equality, housing equity, and ethics.