Awards, Certifications, and Experience.

Eastern State Penitentiary Justice Education Collaboratory: Members of the Collaboratory contribute to creating impactful tools tailored for educators and students nationwide. These tools serve as instruments of change within classrooms, striving to influence our nation's understanding of justice and the construction of an equitable justice system. The mission of the Collaboratory also extends beyond the traditional education realm, reaching into the corridors of the justice system and resonating within the hearts of our communities. Through its collective efforts, Collaboratory for Justice Education is a beacon of hope and inspiration, illuminating the path toward a fair and just America.

  • Dynamic community of dedicated and enthusiastic people with a shared passion for justice education.

  • Committed to generating innovative solutions for understanding intricate societal issues.

Jobs for the Future, Normalizing Education Collective: The Collective will support the growth of high-quality postsecondary education in prison programs across multiple education partners across the country. It is a timely initiative aimed at fostering increased collaboration and capacity-building among postsecondary leaders who are driving transformative change in prison education. This work comes in response to the reinstatement of Pell Grants for incarcerated learners in July 2023.

  • Community of practice designed to support postsecondary partners nationwide as they build or expand high-quality postsecondary pathways in prisons that will lead to opportunities for economic advancement.

  • Builds collective capacity through facilitating connections, fostering collaboration, and providing access to crucial tools and resources.

  • Commitment to continuing to support postsecondary education institutions’ important role in facilitating opportunities for learners currently incarcerated.

Faculty Learning Community on Critical Digital Pedagogy: Small group of instructors invited to join the community in an effort to stimulate collaboration and foster experiential learning environments, encourage professional development, bridge disciplinary boundaries, and support community-building among instructors across the university.

  • Explores student-centered education.

  • Promotes best practices for implementing digital pedagogy tools in the classroom.

  • Considers how critical pedagogies have identified digital tools that align with historical pedagogical approaches in education.

Open and Affordable Textbooks Award. Rutgers University Libraries: Goal is to support course material affordability at Rutgers, promote the use of open and affordable educational resources, and empower faculty to innovate their teaching through the use of open, free, or library-licensed materials and teaching aids.

  • Awards research funds to faculty who make their courses more affordable for their students.

  • Promotes affordability by using low-cost materials, library content, and open educational resources (OER).

  • Estimated $6.0 million in savings savings for Rutgers students to date.

The New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Program: The New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP) initiative is an association of higher education institutions in New Jersey that works in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Corrections and Parole Board.

  • Provides higher education courses toward a college degree for students while they are incarcerated.

  • Assists with student transition to college life upon release from prison.

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program: International network of trained faculty, students, alumni, think tanks, higher education and correctional administrators trained to utilize an innovative pedagogical approach to facilitate dialogue across difference.

  • Connects campus-based students and incarcerated students for a semester-long course inside of a prison, jail, or other facility.

  • Received a 7-day pedagogical training inside of a maximum security prison.

Courses Designed and Taught.

Endicott College.

Intro to Criminal Justice (100)

Corrections (205)

Victimology (241)

Research Methods (302)

Mass Incarceration (351)

Rutgers University.

Corrections (204)

Constitutional Issues in Criminal Justice (222)

Contemporary Problems in Corrections (402)

Youth Violence (422)

Mass Incarceration and Collateral Consequences (424)

Law & Prisons (466)

Quinnipiac University.

Prisons & Jails (261)