April Zeoli

April Zeoli is a highly regarded expert on the connection between intimate partner violence (IPV) and gun violence. She is a professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Public Health, where she focuses on research that combines public health, criminology, and criminal justice. April’s current research aims to identify ways to prevent intimate partner homicide. She studies the criminal histories of people who have committed these crimes to find points where authorities could have stepped in. She also researches how well the legal system enforces gun laws for IPV offenders. This includes studying the processes for ensuring that individuals who are no longer allowed to own firearms actually surrender them. A respected voice in her field, April is on the editorial board of the journal Injury Prevention and serves as the research expert for the National Domestic Violence and Firearms Resource Center. Her work provides crucial insights for creating laws and policies that protect victims of domestic violence from gun-related harm.