Congratulations to CLI Alum Michelle Daniel Jones for graduating from NYU with her PhD!
Congratulations to Collective Leadership Institute Alum Michelle Daniel Jones on graduating with her PhD from the American Studies program at New York University this week!
Her dissertation focuses on creative liberation strategies of incarcerated women and the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. As an organizer, collaborator, and subject matter expert she creates opportunities to speak truth to power and serves in the development and operation of taskforces and initiatives to reduce harm and end mass incarceration.
Michelle is the co-editor with Elizabeth Nelson of a new history of Indiana’s carceral institutions for women with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated colleagues titled, Who Would Believe a Prisoner? Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848 – 1920.
Michelle was a part of our most recent cohort of the Collective Leadership Institute and graduated from the program in March. She is also supporting our Oral History Research Project.
We cannot wait to see what the future holds for her! Congratulations Michelle!
