Jorja Leap is an American anthropologist and adjunct professor in the social welfare department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
She is also Director of the Health and Social Justice Partnership at UCLA and is a nationally recognized gang expert.
[6] Her dissertation, under the name Jorja Jeane Manos Prover, was Culture-makers: Hollywood writers as an American elite.
[7] In March 2012, Leap published Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption.
[8] In 2015, she published Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities.