Patrick Conway

Patrick Filipe Conway is Director of the Boston College Prison Education Program. He earned his Ph.D. in Education from Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development. His scholarship has appeared in the Review of Higher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Sociological Forum, and the Harvard Educational Review, among others. He currently serves as a board member of the New England Commission on the Future of Higher Education in Prison, working in partnership with the New England Board of Higher Education and the Educational Justice Institute at MIT to help shape the future of college-in-prison in New England. His work and research have been highlighted on the “Have You Heard” podcast, and his nonfiction writing has appeared in literary journals and magazines, receiving notable mention from the Best American Essays anthology.