Jorja Leap（乔雅·利普）

1978届  1980社会工作专业硕士 1988届博士  人类学家  社会工作者  帮派干预大师

她认为应该拯救街头失足青年

就在洛杉矶南部和世界各个城市中的街道帮派当道，暴力就是王法，Jorja Leap研究着“生命”。不是从学术象牙塔，而是在罪行常常发生的社区中调研。在这儿，她被青少年犯罪团伙成员称为“小妈妈”，她改变了他们的生活，受到了他们的尊重和爱戴。Leap是UCLA罗斯金公共事务学院社会福利专业的副教授。在西木村社区，她用心实践她的方法，开始了她的事业，最终成为世界上研究帮派最著名的专家之一。

Jorja Leap

Class of 1978, MSW 1980, PhD 1988

For her, the mean streets are roads to redemption.

On the streets of South Los Angeles, and in cities around the world where gangs hold sway and violence is the norm, Jorja Leap studies “the life” – not from an academic ivory tower, but in the crime-wracked neighborhoods themselves. That’s where “Little Mama,” as the gangbangers call her, is respected and loved for the lives she has changed. Leap is an adjunct professor of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. It was here in Westwood where she honed her hands-on approach and launched a career that has seen her recognized as one of the world’s most renowned experts on gangs.