Nancy A. Heitzeg, Ph.D is a professor of sociology and director of the critical studies of race/ethnicity program at St. Catherine University. She is the author of The School to Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Double Standards (Praeger, 2015), and has written/presented widely on issues of race, class, gender and social control with particular attention to color-blind racism, the prison-industrial complex and the school-to-prison pipeline. She is, with Kay Whitlock, co-founder and co-editor of the Criminal Injustice series on the Critical Mass Progress blog.