*Updated October 2024

Topic: Incarceration and education, prepared by Akio Tamura-Ho and Beatrice Maron Schaeffer

Coursework: 

• AFAM 131: Mass Incarceration in Historical Perspective
• AFAM 227: From the Voting Rights Act to #blacklivesmatter
• EDST 274: College in Prison

Faculty and staff:

• Zelda Roland, Director, Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall
• Vanessa Estime, Assistant Director, Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall

Clubs, organizations, activities:

• Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) at Dwight Hall at Yale
• Prison Education Working Group at Policy Lab at ISPS
• Yale Undergraduate Prison Project (YUPP)
• Yale Collective for Abolition, Resistance, and Education (YCARE)

Fellowships:

• Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) at Dwight Hall at Yale
  • Summer fellow or year-round fellow through Dwight Hall Summer Fellows Program, Urban Fellows Program, or Ed Studies Endeavor funding
  • Transcription Network (part-time volunteer basis transcribing handwritten papers and course evaluations—sign up through YPEI website)
  • Research Request Network (part-time volunteer basis finding and compiling sources and research packets on behalf of YPEI students—sign up through YPEI website) 

Post-grad opportunities:

• Program Administrator, Prison Education Program at New York University
• Director of Development, Prison University Project
• Prison Program Assistant, Defy Ventures
• Program Manager, Prisons, Defy Ventures (Colorado)