Partners

TUPIT works in partnership with local and national networks of individuals, groups, and organizations working to improve the system of criminal justice through access to education:

• • Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individual scholars and activists
  • Bunker Hill Community College
  • MA Department of Correction, Division of Education & Division of Reentry Services
  • North Suffolk Community Services
  • Project Place
  • The Transformational Prison Project
  • Legacy Lives On & New Beginnings
  • Boston Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens
  • Petey Greene Program
  • CRJ’s Brooke House
  • Partakers: College Behind Bars Mentoring Program
  • Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
  • Inside-Out Prison Exchange
  • Educational Justice Initiative at MIT & Massachusetts Prison Education Consortium (MPEC)

We remain grateful for the early and essential help we received from the following local and national leaders in prison education:

• Tanya Erzen, Founder & Former Executive Director of FEPPS
• Robert Scott, Cornell Prison Education Program
• Jody Lewen, Prison University Project
• Carole Cafferty and Lee Pearlman, MIT’s TEJI
• Ed Wiltse, The Jail Project, Rochester Education Justice Initiative
• Joshua Miller, Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative
• Sheila Meiman, NASFAA
• Bob Cadigan and Jim Matesanz, Boston University Prison Education Program
• Jean Trounstine, Changing Lives through Literature
• Jenifer Drew of Stone Associates, Lasalle College
• MA Department of Correction: Mary Haynes, Dennis O’Neil, Brian Terhaar, Megan Crowley, Talene Bare, Bernard Audette
• Special thanks to the TUPIT JumboCode team for supporting our Degree Program.