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Knowledge is Power: Justice Education as a Liberatory Practice
We were delighted to welcome Romarilyn Ralston, Senior Director of the Justice Education Center at Claremont Colleges, to present this seminar.
Abstract:
With a particular focus on the contribution of black feminist abolitionist thought and practice, this presentation takes a gentle look at the relationship and impact of education on incarcerated people from within the prison and beyond the bars. The talk also considers how the Inside Out model and campus-based college programs transform the lives of students, faculty, and culture.
About the Speaker
Romarilyn Ralston is Senior Director of the Justice Education Center at Claremont Colleges and the former Executive Director of Project Rebound at California State University Fullerton. She identifies as a black feminist abolitionist with an incarceration experience. Romarilyn earned a Bachelor’s degree in Gender & Feminist Studies from Pitzer College and a Master’s degree in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis after 23 years of incarceration.
Romarilyn is especially focused on building power, sharing space, and empowering systems-impacted BIPOC women and other justice-involved sisters from all backgrounds through the transformative power of post-secondary education and community-building. She is a long-time member and organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and serves on the leadership committee. Romarilyn sits on the several national Boards including the Education Trust and Freedom Reads, also known as the Yale Million Book Project.
In 2022, Ralston received a full pardon from Governor of California, Gavin Newsom. Moreover, Romarilyn is in her first year of the Claremont Graduate University Drucker School of Management, PhD program in Executive Management.
Event hosted by ISS21, Access UCC, HEA North South Programme TOGETHER project, the Irish University Prison Education Network, and IPAN (Irish Penal Abolition Network) to a talk, 'Knowledge is Power: Justice Education as a Liberatory Practice.'