Kaley Makino earned her BA in English Language and Literature with a minor in Law, Justice, and Social Change. Her main fields of interest are literature, sociology, and gender studies, with emphases on regional poetry and social justice. Her capstone project examines the intersection of androcentrism and racialization in the prison industrial complex to perform a comparative reading of how patriarchal ideology in the U.S. justice system produces conditions of exploitation. Specifically, through recourse to feminist and psychoanalytic theory, she analyzes literary and cinematic narratives of violence to consider how misogyny and racism shape the production of social hierarchies.