Prison Chronicles: Working with Incarcerated Women

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.