A Herstory Writers Network/HISB Event supported by a Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership grant from Humanities New York.

An event to showcase work done through the “Doing Our Time on the Outside” project which bring to the fore the voices of individuals, families and communities impacted by incarceration, and engages the audience in discussion using a story-based strategy in carceral justice reform. Discussion of the project and readings from participants.

Moderated by Herstory founder and director Erika Duncan.

This event is made possible through a generous post-incarceration partnership grant initiative with Herstory Writers Network and Humanities New York, in collaboration with the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, Hofstra University’s Criminology Program, St. Joseph’s College Criminal Justice Department, Prison Families Alliance, and S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth, Inc.

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Event Program

Coffee: 12:00pm

Opening remarks: 12:30pm by Susan Scheckel, Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University & Joseph Murphy, Humanities New York; Introduction and context setting by the Hon. Judge Fernando Camacho, Acting Justice of the Suffolk County Supreme Court, 10th District NY

Session I: 1:00 – 2:30pm

The Strength in Our Stories: Re-entry Journeys for Power and Change

·      Moderator: Erika Duncan, Founder and Director, Herstory Writers Network

·      Readers:

 -- Victoria Roberts reading The Visit; former Nassau County Re-Entry Taskforce Coordinator and Herstory at Hofstra workshop facilitator

-- Rich Paul, S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth, Inc., on memoir moments of incarceration and re-entry

-- Jessica Lowell Mason reading Invitation to Terror; Founder and Director, Madwoman in the Attic Project; Herstory Co-facilitator for Reimagining Mental Healthcare

·      Panelists: Readers and keynote speaker will be joined in a panel discussion by Barbara Morrell, Director of the Criminology Department, St. Joseph’s College

·      Followed by audience participation

Break/Networking:      2:30 – 3:00pm

Session II: 3:00 – 4:30pm

Help Not Punishment: Prison Families Writing for Change

·      Moderator: Erika Duncan, Founder and Director, Herstory Writers Network

·      Readers:

-- Barbara Allan, Founder of Prison Families Anonymous, reading from her book Doing Our Time on the Outside

-- Marcellus Morris, Reign for Life, and Aysiah Morris, entrepreneur, on breaking the cycle of incarceration and re-entry across the generations

-- Maria Ceraulo reading Page One Moment, National Alliance for Mental Illness

·      Panelists: Readers and keynote speaker will be joined in a panel discussion by Liena Gurevich, Director of Criminology Program at Hofstra University

·      Followed by audience participation

Closing remarks: 4:30 pm

Reception to follow