In fall 2017, Heather Mooney, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology, organized a panel at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA, and presented her paper, "Opportunities Supplied: Providing White Youth to the Private Troubled Teen Industry." Her travel was supported with NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) funding from the Graduate School.

Heather Mooney (left end), then Charles Bell, WSU and AGEP scholar, Sterling Jackson, WSU, then Aaron Kinzel from UM-Dearborn, King-Chavez-Parks fellow and his mentee undergrad Candice Tutor.