Megan Comfort, Ph.D., is a senior research sociologist in the Youth, Violence Prevention, and Community Justice Program in RTI International’s Division for Applied Justice Research and affiliated faculty in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Megan began her career at the House at San Quentin, providing services to people coming to the prison to visit their loved ones.  She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and published her dissertation research as the book Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison (University of Chicago Press, 2008). She is also a co-author with Tasseli McKay, Christine Lindquist, and Anupa Bir of Holding On: Family and Fatherhood During Incarceration and Reentry (University of California Press, 2019).