OUR WORK
Beyond Prisons is a Teaching and Learning Initiative
STUDENT INTERNSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
Every year a cohort of students support the work of Beyond Prisons and, when funding is available, are placed with local community organizations.
Contact Email:
beyondprisonsinitative@gmail.com
2025 Beyond Prisons Undergraduate Student interns: Noah Crutchfield, Destiny Jenkins, Yurou Li, Iman Snobar
2025 Graduate Fellows: Neomi Rao and Brianna Suslovic
Past Student Interns/Fellows include:
COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIPS
The Beyond Prisons Initiative offers a range of fellowships to community leaders whose work addresses the crisis of mass incarceration. Fellowships are uniquely designed to provide opportunities for active engagement with Beyond Prisons, CSRPC and the UChicago community to fellows’ practices, knowledge and skills as scholars, advocates, and artists.
Justice Practitioner Fellowship
James Soto, 2024-2025
Dave Wales, 2024-2025
Community Learning Fellowship, Spring 2025
Eric Anderson, Dorothy Burge, Wendy Clinard, Raeghn Draper, Barbara Easley, Maria Garza, Michael Harrell, Josephine Horace, and Angel Pantoja
Healing IL Fellowship
Shaneva McReynolds, Spring 2025
Maria Pike, Spring 2025
CULTURAL PROJECTS
Humans of Life Row - link to website
Link to logos to include designed ‘Humans of Life Row’
Juneteenth Reflections from Logan Prison - zine to be ready by end of June
Resilience Theater Festival - [to be added this summer/fall]
Heart Work: Renaldo Hudson - link to Renaldo Hudson’s website
Art, Harm and Healing - link to Art, Harm and Healing statement
COURSES
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Mixed enrollment course at Stateville Prison taught by Alice Kim and Cathy Cohen 2023
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Mixed enrollment course at Stateville Prison taught by Alice Kim and Cathy Cohen 2024
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2021 and 2022
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