As I walked into the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) on my first day working as the Full-Time Tutor at the Bard Microcollege, a mixture of excitement and trepidation roiled in my chest. The grandeur of the library building, with its open spaces, felt majestic,… Read More
Author:
Timothy Falotico
With First Graduates, EPI Celebrates Six Years of Transformative Education
John Yang ’23 began his studies with the Emerson Prison initiative, and now is a junior on the Boston campus. Screen shot from EPI videoFrom the very first class he took as an Emerson student, John Yang ’23 said he learned a new way… Read More
Documentary Provides Rare Look at Higher Education in Prison
Emerson College launched the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) and joined the Consortium in 2017 with an initial cohort of twenty students at Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Concord who began coursework in the fall of 2017. With assistance from BPI, EPI is expanding course offerings… Read More