Dr. Linda Keena is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Mississippi. She is a former State of Missouri Adult Probation and Parole officer and for over twenty-seven years has taught various criminal justice courses and facilitated faith-based, restorative justice, and entrepreneurship programs to maximum security prisoners, nationally and internationally. She has a record of scholarly publications which reflects a variety of restorative justice, corrections, and servant leadership topics. She is co-author and project director for Meth Education for Elementary Students (MEDFELS), a nationally recognized methamphetamine education program for third and fourth graders. She is a member of the American Corrections Association's Professional Education Council and Delegate Assembly, representing Institutions of Higher Learning and a life member of the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice. Dr. Keena is a 2012 graduate of the Delta Leadership Executive Academy and a 2014 graduate of Harvard School of Executive Education. Finally, Dr. Keena currently serves as the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Restorative and Community Justice Section 2nd Executive Counselor.