The photo shows Carlock on the video screen behind CU Denver’s Kyle Danforth, Shana Medah, Sean Mueller, Regina Rodriguez, PEP Director Stephen Hartnett, and Roxy New.
Friday, August 8: The UCD PEP was thrilled to offer a New Student Orientation for our 35 new students at the Sterling Correctional Facility. The team included SJH, PEP teacher and Student Support Liaison Meghan Cosgrove, and new PEP teacher Dr. Amber McDonnell.
Thursday, August 7: The UCD PEP appeared on Carol Peeples' Colorado Radio for Justice (CRJ) Program, "Hotlines," the weekly show reviewing incarceration issues and social justice in the Rocky Mountains. To listen to CRJ, go to Colorado Radio for Justice. Along with SJH, the show included PEP alum Sean Mueller.
Monday, August 4: The UCD PEP team was honored to participate in the Jobs for the Future seminar on "Fair Chance" employment practices for folks who are incarceration-impacted. The photo shows UCD PEP Director SJH with Dr. Khalilah KO Olokunola, Senior Director of the Center for Justice and Economic Advancement's "Jobs for the Future" (JFF) program. To learn more about JFF, go to https://www.jff.org.
Friday, August 1: The UCD PEP was thrilled to offer a New Student Orientation for our 32 new students at the Territorial Correctional Facility. The team included SJH, veteran PEP teacher Dr. Ben Boyce, new PEP teacher Dr. Aaron Massey, and Joybelle Phelan, the Director of Unbound Authors, the group that will be offering Writing-Center-like support services to our students.
Thursday, July 10: The UCD PEP team participated in the third brainstorming session of the Colorado Coalition of Higher Education in Prison (C-CHEP), meeting this time on the campus of Denver University.
Wednesday, June 18: We hosted another FAFSA Awareness Workshop for our new students at Sterling, aided by Sophie Vogel from the Colorado Department of Higher Education.
Friday, June 13: We hosted another FAFSA Awareness Workshop for our new students at Territorial, aided by Katie Gutierrez Nittmann from the Colorado Department of Higher Education.
Friday, June 6: The UCD PEP joined statewide allies at the Second Brainstorming Session of the emerging Colorado Coalition for Higher Education in Prisons, meeting this time at Regis University (in the interest of building team leadership, we are rotating meeting locations and meeting facilitators).
Monday, June 2: The UCD PEP completed Round 2 of our admissions process at Sterling, where we met with 60+ students to review their career goals, educational needs, and, if applicable, prior transcripts—all part of our doing due diligence to ensure program fit for our new students.
Friday, May 30: UCD PEP Academic Advisor Shana Medah and PEP alum Sean Mueller delivered a presentation entitled “Hope and Redemption: Advising Incarcerated and Recently Released Students for a Transformational Education.” They spoke before a packed conference room at the University of Northern Colorado, which was hosting the annual convention of the Colorado and Wyoming Academic Advising Association. As part of their talk, Medah and Mueller showed a clip from PEP alum Jacob Carlock’s presentation before the annual Incarcerated Scholar’s Conference, sponsored by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison. The inspirational talk positioned UCD at the forefront of thinking about academic advising and prison education as interlinked forms of social justice.
Thursday, May 29: With thanks to co-editors Ben Boyce, Meghan Cosgrove, and Sinead Beacom, we sent the content of Volume 21 of Captured Words/Free Thoughts to Julia Beverly, our ace layout artist. Watch for more new about the imminent publication of Vol. 21.
Tuesday, May 27: The UCD PEP completed Round 2 of our admissions process at Territorial, where we met with roughly 40 students to review their career goals, educational needs, and, if applicable, prior transcripts—all part of our doing due diligence to ensure program fit for our new students.