Support from the Dr. Lisa Sable Brown Endowed Fund for Human Rights helped to fund research for my dissertation, titled “The Broadway Musical in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” My project examines the theme of incarceration in the Broadway musicals of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, a period during which American culture was consumed

Over the last several years, UW faculty, students, alumni, and community members have worked together to implement programs based on principles of restorative and transformative justice in Washington state. Alongside incarcerated people, survivors of violence, and others, Prof. Katherine Beckett and Martina Kartman of the UWCHR and LSJ’s Rethinking Punishment project began work that has evolved into Collective Justice (CJ), an organization “harnessing the collective power of communities to build new pathways of accountability and healing.”