Marvin Rodas is a submatriculate master's student at the University of Pennsylvania who is pursuing his BA and MS in Criminology. During his time at the University of Pennsylvania, Marvin has been able to hold two research intern positions that have broadened his views on issues pertaining to the criminal justice system, both inside and out of the United States. In the summer of 2023 he spent two months in Portugal working as a legal research assistant at the University of Minho Law School working on an article comparing the rates and judicial procedure of white collar economic crime (i.e. bribery and corruption) between Portugal and the United States. At the beginning of 2024, Marvin was selected to be a part of the second cohort of the Making A Difference Fellowship created by the Crime and Justice Policy Lab at UPenn. During this fellowship, which ran from January 2024 - July 2024, he was working as a qualitative researcher and analyst for the Mexico City office of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) on various projects pertaining to discovering and creating police/community safety measures and policies that would combat crime in an effective and justified manner, both in Mexico and the United States. Other topics that peak Marvin's interest in this field are that of injustices in the system, such as wrongful convictions, and the power of restorative justice.