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
- Partakers: College Behind Bars Mentoring Program
- Petey Greene Program
- Project Place
- Boston Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens
- Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
- Eliot Community Human Services
- 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
- 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: Jamie Camacho, Brian Hogan, John Afonso, Mary Haynes, Megan Crowley, Talene Bare, & Dennis O’Neil
We also thank the TUPIT JumboCode team for supporting our Degree Program.