Dr. Kaitlyn Pritzl

Biography

Kaitlyn Pritzl is a Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in Human Development and Family Studies. She focuses on child and family well-being in the context of parental incarceration, particularly how incarcerated parents and their children can maintain connections through visits and supportive facilities. Kaitlyn has facilitated child-friendly visits at the Dane County Jail, allowing incarcerated parents opportunities to build and maintain relationships with their children through creative play and interaction. She is an awardee of graduate research fellowships from the Institute for Research on Poverty and the National Institute of Justice, conducting studies to understand families' experiences with these visits. Her previous research includes a role as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Healthy Brain Child Development Study, the largest long-term study of early child development in the United States. Kaitlyn obtained her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Human Development & Family Studies in 2017, and her Master’s degree in the same field in 2022. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate and is motivated by her experiences working with children, especially those impacted by autism, to further study stress development and resilience in children and families.

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