Participants
Amanda Alexander
Director of the Prison and Family Justice Project
Why I'm participating:
Brad Bang
Undergraduate Student, Stamps School of Art and Design
Why I'm participating:
Hydeen Beverly
Juvenile Probation Officer, Washtenaw County
Why I'm participating: I want to bridge the opportunity for adjudicated youth to get involved with their community.
Jim Dankovich

Why I'm participating: To change the world's awareness of incarceration, especially the legislators and people of Michigan.
Lois DeMott
Founder, Family Participation Program
Why I'm participating: I would like to put a face to the families and children with incarcerated loved ones.
Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel
Founder and Director, Telling It
Why I'm participating:
Ana Fernandez
Lecturer in Drawing and Printmaking at the Residential College
Why I'm participating:
Natalie Holbrook
Criminal Justice Program Director, American Friends Service Committee
Why I'm participating:
Diane Kim
Undergraduate Student, Stamps School of Art and Design
Why I'm participating:
Amanda Krugliak
Curator at the Institute for the Humanities
Why I'm participating: I want to serve as a venue for exhibiting and publicizing the ideas and work behind the project.
Ashley Lucas
Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project and Associate Professor in the Theater and Drama Department
Why I'm participating: I believe in the ability of arts work to change the way we see the world and social issues.
Joshua Meisler
Clinician, Growth Works Inc.
Why I'm participating:
Richard Meisler
Lecturer in the Department of American Culture
Why I'm participating:
Alice Mishkin
Lecturer in the School of Social Work
Why I'm participating:
Mary Rose Naoum
Southeast Michigan Outreach Coordinator, Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending
Why I'm participating: CAPPS "crunches the numbers," working with the data in MDOC reports to create a step-by-step guide for policymakers and legislators on safely reducing Michigan's prison population.
Shaka Senghor
Coordinator of the Atonement Project
Why I'm participating:
Mark Strandquist
Visiting artist
Why I'm participating:
Megan Sweeney
Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Why I'm participating: I'm interested in continuing to foster dialogue among people on both sides of the prison fence.
Ruby Tapia
Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies
Why I'm participating: I'm interested in thinking about how to complicate our knowledge/representations of carceral spaces.
Heather Wilson
Membership and Events Coordinator for the Prison Creative Arts Project
Why I'm participating:
Isaac Wingfield
Lecturer in Photography at the Residential College
Why I'm participating: I am interested in using photography as a way for inmates to communicate about their identity and experiences.
 












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