This event will bring together formerly incarcerated artists and writers to explore the relationship between making art and creating change, both within prisons and outside the walls. The panel will feature Russell Craig, Morgan Godvin, and Eric Christo Martinez, and will be moderated by Elizabeth Hinton.
Russell Craig is a visual artist and co-founder of the Right of Return Fellowship. A self-taught artist who survived nearly a decade of incarceration after growing up in the foster care system, Craig creates art as a means to explore the experience of overcriminalized communities and reassert agency after a lifetime of institutional control.
Morgan Godvin is a journalist, advocate, editor, and drug policy researcher. She is the Content & Community Engagement Manager at ITHAKA and the founder of Beats Overdose.
Eric Christo Martinez is an artist, curator, writer, entrepreneur, and advocate based in Albuquerque, NM
Elizabeth Hinton is Professor of History, African American Studies, and Law at Yale University. Her research focuses on the persistence of poverty, racial inequality, and urban violence in the 20th century United States.
Convened by Thomas Dichter, Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University.
This event is co-sponsored by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, the Educational Justice Institute at MIT, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Institute on Policing, Incarceration & Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, the Prison Studies Project, and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School.
LOCATION:Sever Hall, Room 113 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20240305T230000Z DTEND:20240305T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR