This Saturday, an annual Prison Education Conference will be held at ASU in Tempe.
This coming Saturday is the fifth annual conference focused on the power of education—including arts education—to better the lives of people who are incarcerated.
Judge Lilia Alvarez, a keynote speaker at the 2016 Prison Education Conference
The Prison Education Conference occurs on Saturday, March 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will be staged at the Tempe campus of Arizona State University, in the Memorial Union Turquoise Room (MU 220).
More detail about the event, which is open to the public, is here.
You can register for the free event here.
As announced by organizers:
Keynote speakers Judge Lilia Alvarez and attorney Kirstin Eidenbach will discuss how best to deter juveniles from entering the system.
Judge Alvarez is the presiding judge for the Guadalupe Municipal Court and also leads a “teen court” in Guadalupe. Kirstin Eidenbach is an admired attorney who focuses on prisoners’ rights issues.
Attorney Kirstin Eidenbach, a keynote speaker at the 2016 Prison Education Conference
Michelle Ribeiro, recently retired from the New Mexico Corrections Department, will speak on the creation of the Pen Project—a class that allows maximum security and other incarcerated writers to receive feedback from ASU interns. Sheldon Thompson, a Pen Project participant who, on his release, was accepted on scholarship to the Institute of American Indian Arts, will speak of his educational experiences (both in and out of prison) and also share some of his creative work.
Click here to watch a video of Michelle Ribeiro’s remarks at last year’s conference.
Michelle Ribeiro speaks at ASU in 2015.
And you can read a class description of the Pen Project class here.
For a terrific roundup of last year’s conference, go here.
The conference is hosted by the Prison Education Awareness Club (PEAC) and the Department of English.
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