Students and faculty work on collage under guidance of Kassandra Pantoja, noted mixed media artist
This public humanities project, created through a university-community partnership, is designed to support, publish, archive, and make widely available the writings of those most directly impacted by the carceral system.
Writing Beyond the Prison is founded upon the belief that writing is more than the production of the written word. Rather, it is a process that involves reflection, conceptualization and self-realization that can be truly transformative. When shared with the wider world, writing moves beyond an act of individual consciousness and self-expression to become a communal exchange that creates knowledge, empathy and recognition of shared conditions. The American Council of Learned Societies, United Black Families and Herstory sponsors this programs talks
