Advisory Board

The PCAP advisory board is a group of diverse individuals who promote the interests of the Prison Creative Arts Project and contributes to the growth of the organization. The board provides inspirational leadership for programmatic and strategic goals and keeps PCAP informed about trends affecting long range planning and programming.

National Advisory Board Members

Ellen Barry
Consultant, Women & Justice Issues
Founder, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (San Francisco, CA)

Charlie Bright
Professor of Residential College and Professor of History, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

Lessie Brown
Independent Artist (Ann Arbor, MI)

Sherry Burt
Warden, Cooper Street Correctional Facility (Jackson, MI)

Gary Coakley
Program Director, Boysville (Clinton, MI)

Suzanne Gothard
Family Services Specialist, Centerforce  (San Franciso, CA)

Caitlin Graziano
Employment Specialist, Center for Urban Community Services (New York, NY)

Pat Gurin
Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

Emily Harris
Coordinator, Free Battered Women (San Francisco, CA)

Jesse Jannetta
Research Associate, The Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)

Michael Keck
Actor (New York, NY)

Chiara Liberatore
Co-Founder, Maine Inside Out (Portland, ME)

Bill Lovett
Stategic Planner, Michigan Department of Corrections - retired (Charlevoix, MI)

Penny Ryder
Co-Director, American Friends Service Committee - retired (Ann Arbor, MI)

Andrea Scott
Steering Team, Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (Washtenaw County, MI)

Lionel Stewart
Independent Artist

Joe Summers
Community Co-Chair, Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (Washtenaw County, MI)

Patricia Yaeger
Henry Simmon Frieze Collegiate Professor of English, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

 

Honorary Board Members

Jimmy Santiago Baca
Poet, essayist, filmmaker (Albuquerque, NM)

Harriet Barlow
Director, Blue Mountain Center (Blue Mountain Lake, NY/Minneapolis, MN)

Bell Chevigny
Professor, SUNY-Purchase retired; Member, PEN Prison Writing Program; Editor,
Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (New York, NY)

Norma Green
Manager, Men’s Spiritual Healing Lodge (Prince Albert, Saskatchewan)

Richard Kamler
Associate Professor of Visual Arts, University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)

Phyllis Kornfeld
Prison Art Teacher; Author of Cell Block Visions (Stockbridge, MA)

Sister Helen Prejean
Prison Activist and Author of Dead Man Walking (New Orleans, LA)

Andrew Rubinson
Co-director, Fresh Youth Initiatives (New York, NY)