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About

Our Team

Founder & Executive Director

Hilary Binda is the Founder and Executive Director of the Tufts University Prison Initiative (TUPIT) and its MyTERN College and Reentry program at Tufts. With a PhD in English Literature and as a member of the Civic Studies Department at Tufts University, she teaches Literature and theory, Gender Studies, and Carceral Studies at Tufts and in the degree program inside at 3 facilities. Hilary directs the MyTERN reentry program on the Tufts University campus, The Literatures of Justice and Storytelling for Social Change. Binda is a co-producer of theMyTERN Conversations podcast and a founder and co-editor of the national journal ReSentencing, that includes art and writing by people directly impacted by the legal system across the country. Her program directorships, teaching, as well as her current research, aims to support the development of educational access, racial and economic equity, decarceration, and decriminalization.

Education and Reentry Director

Originally from Lowell, MA, David Delvalle has become a fierce advocate for criminal justice reform and a skilled public speaker and organizer. Impressively, he has been able to accomplish these all while being an integral college student within TUPIT during his incarceration and after his return in MyTERN. He is currently in the one-year certificate program for Civic-Studies. David’s activities outside the classroom have focused on youth impact.  He presently works in student outreach at his alma mater, Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School. David is currently the Program Manager at Haley House.

Faculty Admissions Coordinator

Heather Curtis

Faculty Research Director

Jill Weinberg

MCI-Shirley Faculty Liaison

Amy Millay

Director of Reentry Technology

Jim Bowker

Graduate Assistant Program Administrator

Louise Bond

Faculty Advisory Co Chairs

Kim Ruane,

Heather Nathans 

TUPIT Faculty and Courses

School of Arts and Sciences
Tisch College of Civic Life
School of Engineering
Tufts University School of Medicine
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
The Fletcher School
Fellows to Cohort Two:
  • Shakir Abdullah
  • Rahim Gray
  • Joseph Irizarry
  • Devon McNeil
Fellows to Cohort Three:
  • Steven Johnson
  • Bobby Iacoviello
  • Aaron Smith
  • Hector Bannister
  • Marie Lafontant
  • Eugene Ivey
Fellows to Cohort Four
  • Nurudeen Alabi
  • Rahmel Askari
  • Christina Bernbaum
  • Willie Cabrera
  • David Delvalle
  • Dararong Jimmy Heang
  • Jeff Raphael
Fellows to Cohort Five
  • Nurudeen Alabi
  • Rahmel Askari
  • Christina Bernbaum
  • Willie Cabrera
  • Rome Chacon 
  • Supreme Hassan
  • Swinks Laporte
  • Kentel Weaver

Undergraduate/Graduate Medford Student Assistants

2024-2025
  • Isabel Garzon
  • Toluwani Oso
  • Louise Bond
  • Kaylee Lopez
2023-2024
  • Lizzie Friedman
  • Isabel Garzon
  • Arlyss Herzig
  • Toluwani Oso
  • Helena Colbert
2022-2023
  • Lizzie Friedman
  • Emile Naccasha 
  • Meira Downie 
  • BR rose
2021-2022
  • Claudia Guetta
  • Thomas Levy
  • Celia Strumph
2020-2021
  • Claudia Guetta
  • Thomas Levy
  • Celia Strumph

Graduated Staff

Claudia Guetta

I am in my third year of medical school now. I’m so enjoying applying my knowledge in a practical setting, working in teams, and building connections with patients. I’m fortunate enough to work with the TUSM administration to help bring more restorative justice to the medical curriculum and the Tufts community. And mostly, I’m just learning and observing and trying to bring all that TUPIT taught me into the world!

Quinn Williamson

Quinn Williamson was the Assistant Director for TUPIT from spring 2022 to the fall of 2024. As a member of the TUPIT team, Williamson supported the success of the programming inside prison through curriculum planning, faculty and TA coordination, and academic advising, as well as the support of the MyTERN reentry students adjusting to life out of prison. Quinn is now pursuing their PhD in Africana Studies at Brown University. 

Katie Swimm

Katie Swimm was the Academic Support Director for Tupit in fall 2024. As a member of the TUPIT team, Katie developed and taught academic success courses, provided one-on-one and group academic coaching, and coordinated support for students with disabilities to all students enrolled in TUPIT programs. Katie is now working as a Senior Program Manager at Amazon.  

We have launched the Call for Submissions for reSentencing Volume 2! You can learn more about the guidelines here. If we received a submission after the  June 1, 2021 deadline for the first volume of reSentencing, we will consider your work for volume 2. 

CORRESPONDENCE BY MAIL AND EMAIL: Starting January 1st 2024, please submit to Volume 2 by emailing us at resentencing@tufts.edu or mailing us at 

ReSentencing

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