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20th BPI Commencement with Speaker Bobby L. Rush
June 11, 2022, Eastern: Across May and June 2022, BPI celebrated six graduations — our first in-person since 2019 — and honored over 200 graduates; we cheered the wildly overdue change in New York’s law excluding incarcerated people from modest, need-based scholarships; and, we recognized the contributions of retiring congressman Bobby L. Rush, who received an honorary doctorate and delivered the commencement address.
21st BPI Commencement with Speaker Desmond Meade
June 3, 2023, Eastern: BPI’s 21st commencement ceremony with voting rights activist and commencement speaker Desmond Meade, whose work restored voting rights to over 1.4 million people with histories of convictions in Florida. 63 students earned degrees.
College Behind Bars with Max Kenner and Sebastian Yoon
Listen to three Bard alumni talk about BPI, Senior Projects, and the film College Behind…
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Dyjuan Tatro and Wes Caines’ Book Recommendations
Wesley Caines is the Chief of Staff at the Bronx Defenders and an alum of the Bard Prison Initiative or BPI and Dyjuan Tatro, works at the Bard Prison Initiative as their Government Affairs Officer and he’s also an…
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Episode 30: A Conversation with Rodney Spivey-Jones and Max Kenner
In this podcast, Josie Duffy Rice travels to Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York, to interview Rodney Spivey-Jones ’17 and Max Kenner. Listen to the conversation about Senior Projects and much more.