Upcoming Talk - Knowledge is Power: Justice Education as a Liberatory Practice

16 Sep 2024

Happening On 09/10/2024

You are cordially invited 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.'

Knowledge is Power: Justice Education as a Liberatory Practice

Speaker: Romarilyn Ralston, Senior Director of Justice Education Center at Claremont Colleges and former Executive Director of Project Rebound at California State University Fullerton.

• Wednesday 9^th October. 17:00 -18:30
• Location: UCC, O’Rahilly Building, Room 156

 All welcome. Please register in advance to attend in-person or online Registration Form

MS meeting link for those who will attend online on Wed, 9th October: MS Teams Link  for Knowledge is Power talk

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.