Prison Chronicles: Working with Incarcerated Women
Rachel Williams
Wednesday, 08 Apr 2015 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Rachel Williams will share her experience as an artist, researcher, and teacher working with women in prison. An associate professor in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa, Williams provides opportunities for these women to discuss domestic violence, sexual assault, relationships, and tools for making better decisions. The intersections of race, class, and gender play an important role in these discussions and have implications for the future landscape of corrections. Her talk will touch on such topics as the Prison Industrial Complex, marginalized women, and the inherent tensions of working with women who are students at the university and women who are in prison.Rachel Williams has been working with incarcerated women since 1993. She has conducted research at corrections facilities in Florida, Wisconsin, Montana and Iowa and has visited and toured numerous other correctional institutions in the United States. In 2010 she enrolled in the Inside-Out Prison Education Program through Temple University. Her current projects include a graphic novel about the Detroit Race Riots of 1943, a mini comic about police brutality, and The Prison Chronicles, a series of stories about working in prisons.
Cosponsored By:
- Women's & Gender Studies Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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