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emareena danielles will be speaking to the Teaching and Learning in Carceral Spaces seminar group on trauma-responsive pedagogy in carceral spaces on October 28th.

A welcome message to Eddie Soares...

On April 1, 2025, the Jail Education Initiative hosted a roundtable conversation on We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024). The event featured book contributors D'Marria Monday and Nadine Naber and co-editor Kim Wilson. It was moderated by JEI Director Laura Ciolkowski.

Professor Laura Ciolkowski, faculty in the Department of WGSS and Director of the Jail Education Initiative, has won the 2025 Distinguished Community Engaged Service Award.

student reflections on the may 7 encampment and the popular university for gaza at UMass this spring