Andrea Hagan is a criminologist, public intellectual, and former adjunct instructor in the Department of Criminology and Justice at Loyola University New Orleans, where she taught Gangs & Criminal Networks, Juvenile Delinquency, and Deviant Behavior.
She holds three master's degrees — two from Columbia University's Teachers College and an MA in Criminology from Loyola — and brings 13 years of frontline classroom experience, including nine years teaching in Newark, New Jersey's public schools.
Her investigative and opinion work has appeared in the Louisiana Illuminator, The Lens, and the Baton Rouge Advocate, where she covers carceral policy, juvenile justice, and the structural contradictions of Louisiana's criminal legal system. She is a regular contributor to the Illuminator and an investigative contributor to The Lens, currently reporting on the legislative implications of HB 168 for adolescent girls in Louisiana.
She is the creator of the H.T.I.L.G. Framework — a five-pillar analytical model (History, Theory, Intersectionality, Law, Geography) used across her teaching, writing, and public commentary — and the founder of Pattern Hunters, a public scholarship brand built on the mission: Clarity. Advocacy. Power.
A 25-year veteran of Hip Hop culture as a writer, producer, and performer, she argues that Hip Hop represents the largest unaccredited intellectual tradition in human history — and brings that epistemological lens to her criminological analysis. Her work sits at the intersection of carceral geography, survival criminalization, and community-based qualitative research.
She is a sought-after expert source on gangs and criminal networks, juvenile delinquency, deviant behavior, Louisiana criminal justice policy, and the cultural dimensions of crime and punishment. She is available for interviews, expert commentary, and analysis.
Her newsletter, The Pattern Hunter, publishes monthly on LinkedIn. Her long-form essays are published exclusively for subscribers at patternhunters.com.
