College of Arts and Sciences
UW Sociology Program
Department Alumni
Brianna Best Chavez
Brianna Best Chavez (MA, 2011) worked for a couple of years at the Wyoming Statistical Analysis Center (WYSAC) as a research analyst. Subsequently, she became a case manager at a non-profit organization that focused on finding housing for homeless veterans. Currently, she is a data analyst and statistical consultant at the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. She also teaches through Outreach the Crime Causation course for the Department of Criminal Justice at UW, which allows her to put to use the knowledge that she gained through double majoring major in Criminal Justice and Sociology and by doing a qualitative thesis research project on parolees in the Wyoming state prison system.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.