Gerpha Gerlin is a graduate student at Northwestern University, currently seeking her doctorate in anthropology and her master’s degree in public health. She expects to graduate in 2026. One of the reasons Gerlin chose Northwestern is because of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, where she is a member of the program’s wellness team. “I’ve in
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On January 24, 2024, NPEP Justice Fellow Heather Canuel hosted a panel event at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law titled, “Expecting Justice: Pregnancy in Prisons.” Watch the panel in the link below. In the realm of criminal justice reform, certain narratives often go unnoticed, and stories untold. One such narrative is the complex and
Abigail Roston is a senior studying history, legal studies and data science at Northwestern University. On campus, she is President of Northwestern Hillel’s student executive board, past President of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, and heavily involved with the undergraduate arm of the Prison Education Program. She became passionate about criminal justice reform in ninth grade
Haley is a rising junior, studying Sociology and Criminology with a concentration in Race, Class, Gender, and Justice at DePaul University. She has completed studies on the transformation of extrajudicial killings, public attitudes regarding the death penalty, and the effects of race and place on incarceration. Haley aims to earn a J.D. after college and
Gisela Reyes is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy and a Critical Theory Mellon Fellow at Northwestern University. Her research interests include social epistemology, social and political philosophy with specific focus on the intersection between philosophy of race and racism and Latinx feminisms. She started to work with NPEP in 2021 and is
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