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Together we can advance access to quality higher education in prison.

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When you donate, you help the Alliance convene the field of higher education in prison, amplify system-impacted voices, and mobilize knowledge and resources.

With your generous support, we can push our work forward. This includes deepening the impact of our annual convenings to ensure that they are cohesive, linked, and reliable opportunities for the field to connect as well as share resources and knowledge. Your gift also makes it possible to extend newer program areas like Education in Action (EiA), our work-based learning initiative to pilot and host paid internship and fellowship opportunities for incarcerated learners, and public education and narrative infrastructure efforts.

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“What I'm hoping that I can represent for other folks is that although I've had this experience in my life there's so much more that I can give. No one is their worst day. My grandmother was always very proud of the things that I was able to accomplish in prison, as well as post-release — earning degrees and fellowships and getting jobs in the field that I love to work in.”
Romarilyn Ralston, Program Coordinator, Project Rebound at Cal State University Fullerton

Why support increasing access to higher education in prison?

  • Higher education in prison contributes to a person’s sense of dignity and purpose and improves quality of life.
  • Higher education in prison can and must be a tool to abolish systems of power and oppression, including prisons.
  • The expansion of access to quality higher education in prison is critical to confronting the persistent inequality of opportunity in higher education, primarily for people of color and people who are economically disenfranchised.
  • Higher education in prison is a first chance to access quality education for many people who are currently incarcerated.
  • Higher education in prison can challenge the same oppressive structures that have enabled mass incarceration.
  • Higher education in prison can be part of the effort to challenge how the United States’ education system further stratifies marginalized communities, creating massive socioeconomic disparities while withholding resources and opportunities.
  • Higher education must be part of ensuring accountability and repair for the history of violence and oppression, and for the withholding of opportunities enacted on people and communities of color.
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