On Friday, May 30, CU Denver Prison Education Program (PEP) Academic Advisor, Shana Medah, and CU Denver 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 hosted the annual convention of the Colorado and Wyoming Academic Advising Association.
As part of their talk, Medah and Mueller showed a clip from a webinar session presented by another CU Denver Prison Education Program alum, Jacob Carlock, which he delivered during the 2024 Incarcerated Scholar’s Conference, an annual event sponsored by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison.
The inspirational talk positioned CU Denver at the forefront of thinking about academic advising and prison education as interlinked forms of social justice.