“I want to see a world where we treat people like human beings, and I want to see a world where everyone has an opportunity to realize the full expression of who they are. I’ve witnessed the power and the transformation that exists in my own life and in the lives of the students that I work with every day.”

“Having education accessible reinforced the sense that I'm still worth something, and I'm still a person regardless of what the prison would try to say. Getting an education inside and then being able to continue it when I got out, and finish a degree, gave me a sense of completion to get myself back on the trajectory that I wanted to be on and that my family kind of expected of me.”

“I saw myself as a criminal and I didn’t see myself getting out of the cycle of what prison is. ... I read my first scientific article when I was incarcerated. Education was literally this rehabilitative thing for me and has helped propelled me to where I am today.”