Chevron Auditorium
2:00 PM
Presenters: Shani Shay, Executive Director, Incarceration to College, Berkeley Underground Scholars; Victoria Robinson, Senior Lecturer, Ethnic Studies; Steph Lopez, Undergraduate student, Ethnic Studies; Donnell Jones, Undergraduate student, African American Studies & Legal Studies; Alexis Wilson, Undergraduate student, Psychology; Ella Morrison, Undergraduate student, Ethnic Studies & Film and Media
Session Descriptions: Incarceration to College (ITC) is a program designed to bring youth incarcerated in Juvenile Halls in the Bay Area into study groups with UC Berkeley students. This semester, incarcerated high school students are engaged in a UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies course, and students from Ethnic Studies are studying with the students in Alameda Juvenile Hall. Forged in the lineage of Black feminist abolitionist thought, the alchemy of this partnership challenges alienated academic life in higher education classrooms, building an ‘undercommons’ of knowledge-making and pedagogy that contests such relationships as placid ‘civic participation’ and understands them within revolutionary praxis.