College Behind Bars, Director Lynn Novick '83

(USA, 2019)
Advance preview and discussion with the director, producer Sarah Botstein, and executive producer Ken Burns.
Panalists include
Emily Bazelon (Yale Law School, New York Times, Author of “CHARGED”), Elizabeth Alexander (President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Max Kenner (Founder and Executive Director, Bard Prison Initiative), Jule Hall (Ford Foundation, Alumnus of the Bard Prison Initiative), Marc Pelka (Under Secretary for Criminal Justice, State of Connecticut), James Jeter (Yale Prison Education Initiative Fellow, Alumnus of Wesleyan Center for Prison Education), Zelda Roland (Founding Director, Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall)
(CT Public Television; Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall; Wesleyan University Center for Prison Education; Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; Liman Program at Yale Law School; Yale Education Studies Program; Yale Documentary Film Workshop; and Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale)
Free and open to public; RSVP required.
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