Roundtable: DFC Sponsored: Incarcerated Women and Higher Education Programs

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

Join us to explore the transformative impact of higher educational programs for incarcerated women. Topics include: A restorative writing exchange between students and incarcerated women; relationship between maternal higher education in prison (HEP) and their children’s academic attainment; challenges faced by formerly incarcerated women (FIW) when entering higher education programs; Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programs in women’s prisons; and how participation in HEP programs influences FIW's reentry.

Katherine Brown Ph.D., is an intersectional criminologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Augustana College in Illinois.

Lisette B. Hughes, MS Ed., is a Curriculum Director for the Racial Justice and Abolition Democracy Curriculum project at Columbia University, an Adjunct Instructor through Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, and a doctoral student at Hofstra University.

Laura Murray is a formerly incarcerated woman and doctoral student at North Carolina University and the president of Wolfpack Rising Student Alliance. Her focus is on women and the LGBTQ+A community in reentry and policy reform.

Mackenzie Niness is a Ph.D. Criminology student at the University of Delaware studying prison programming and carceral experiences at the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.

Anne Weaver, MA LMHC is a doctoral candidate at Lesley University in Cambridge MA.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Anne Weaver, Lesley University

Discussants

• Lisette B. Hughes, Hofstra University / Columbia University

• Laura J. Murray, North Carolina State University

• Mackenzie Niness, University of Delaware

• Katherine E. Brown, Augustana College

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division of Feminist Criminology