Hannah Mangum

Hannah Mangum is a senior pursuing a B.A. in Sociology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Her research interests include popular culture, children, youth and families, illicit markets, digital social media, and deviance. Bringing these interests together, her current research is an exploratory study of responses of social service agencies to social media as a pathway for the commercial sexual exploitation of youth in the foster care system. Hannah was recently designated as a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar, and as a University Scholar for the 2018-19 academic year. She is currently working as a Supplemental Instructor for a statistics lab course, in addition to her role as an instructional student assistant for Introductory Sociology. She is also a research assistant working on a study on role identity in the Sociology Department at CSUN.