Jun 17, 2020
Resilience #2
Poetry Reading & Conversation
Tune in and listen to poems written by currently or formerly incarcerated men and women, as well as a conversation moderated by Lucy Lang, director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution, or IIP, at John Jay College.
Those artists share with us the challenges they've been through in and out of prison, but also their hopes, their strengths… Their resilience.
This episode was recorded on April 23, 2020.
Featured performers are: Ivan Calaff, Halim Flowers, Vivian Nixon, Dario Peña, Robbie Pollock, Pastor Isaac Scott & Shawanna Vaughn.
How can art help build resilience and bring change, especially to those impacted by the criminal justice system ? This is what we are discussing in this series of 5 episodes, which was made in partnership with the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution, or IIP, at John Jay College.