Inside Literature @litinside
Inside Literature is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that teaches Humanities courses in English & Spanish at pre-trial correctional facilities in Texas. Founded in 2014. insideliterature.org Austin, TX Joined November 2017-
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Comrades—does anyone know any Ukrainian artists, musicians, or filmmakers in need of visas? DM for more details!!!
Thrilled to be teaching @MARIADAHVANA's new translation of Beowulf as part of the @litinside program at @TravisCountyTX Correctional Complex. I can't wait to meet my students in the morning!
Check out our website (insideliterature.org/get-involved) for more information and email [email protected] with any questions.
Do you have a passion for teaching? We are looking for volunteer instructors with teaching certification or advanced degrees in the Humanities to teach six-week literature classes in English & Spanish to people incarcerated at the TCCC(virtually due to the pandemic).
and staff engage in to advance institutional diversity goals), mentoring across race and gender, and how BIPOC faculty, staff, and students experience historically White institutions.
An educational researcher focused on issues pertaining to equity in higher education and across the P-16 continuum, specifically, Rich qualitatively examines the phenomena of cultural taxation (the uncompensated, unrewarded diversity labor that BIPOC faculty, students,
Continuing our Curriculum Advisory Board introductions, we'd like to introduce you to an outstanding scholar who has joined the advisory board, Richard J. Reddick, Ed.D. (Rich). Welcome to the team, @DrRichReddick! We are so grateful to you for donating your time and expertise!
Welcome to the team, Joe! We are so grateful to you for donating your time and expertise!
Joe Lockard is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University. He has taught weekly poetry workshops in Arizona prisons since 2009 and established ASU’s prison education program in 2010. He has published extensively on prison literature and prison education issues.
Continuing our Curriculum Advisory Board introductions, we'd like to introduce you to a fantastic scholar who has joined the advisory board, Joe Lockard.
Welcome to the team, Anna! We are so grateful to you for joining us and donating your expertise!
She also teaches creative non-fiction in the California prison system and has written about relational methodologies for the prison classroom in Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and Opportunities (2019).
Continuing our Curriculum Advisory Board introductions, we'd like to introduce you to an awesome scholar who has joined the advisory board, Anna Plemons.
His op-eds have been published in the Austin American Statesman and by the ACLU of Texas. He is the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors with Grassroots Leadership, and also serves on the Oversight Board of Travis County Public Defender's Office (Austin, Texas).
Darwin Hamilton, is an accountant, criminal justice activist, advocate, and author of his self-published his memoir 25 Years Later: A Sentence from Crime to Redemption, Resilience, Advocacy and Leadership.
Inside Literature is proud to announce that we have put together a curriculum advisory board with a fantastic group of community activists and scholars. We'd like to introduce them to you. First up @dham629
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