Our Team
Founder and Executive Director
Hilary Binda
Hilary Binda has a PhD in English Literature and is a member of the Civic Studies Department at Tufts University. She teaches Writing, Poetry, and Gender Studies in the degree program at MCI-Concord. She also teaches an Inside-Out course at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center called The Literatures of Confinement and directs the MyTERN reentry program on the Tufts University campus. In MyTERN, Binda teaches people returning from prison alongside some undergraduate students from Tufts University in courses titled The Literatures of Justice and Storytelling for Social Change. Binda is a co-producer of the MyTERN Conversations podcast and a founder and co-editor of ReSentencing, a journal of art and writing by people directly impacted by the legal system. Her current research aims to support the development of educational access, equity, decarceration, and decriminalization.
Academic and Assistant Director
Quinn Williamson
Quinn Williamson completed their MA in Philosophy from Tufts University with a focus on race, morality, and social and political thought and completed their BA at Howard University in Philosophy and Political Science. As an advocate for education and racial justice, Williamson founded the Urban Youth Alliance in 2014, where high school students from Jersey City, NJ worked as mentors and tutors with black and brown middle school students. Later on the organization expanded to include college coaching for black and brown students in the DC metropolitan area. As a member of the team, Williamson supports the director in ensuring the success of the program inside through curriculum planning, faculty and TA coordination, and academic advising. Williamson continues to co-teach in both the inside and reentry programs.
Faculty Research Director
Jill Weinberg
Faculty Admissions Coordinator
Heather Curtis
ReSentencing Co-Editor
John Lurz
Faculty Advisory Committee
- Hilary Binda
- Heather Nathans
- Heather Curtis
- Kim Ruane
- Jill Weinberg
- John Lurz
- Erin Kelly
- Stephen Gabriel Barber
- Kirby Johnson
- Chantal Zakari
- Susan Ernst
- Kimberly Dong
- Bridget Conley
- Daanika Gordon
- Dana Grossman-Leeman
- Joanna Gray
- Stephan Pennington
- Gregory Crane
- Jennifer Eyl
- Susan Russinoff
- Maria-Concepcion Lagunas Davis
- Amy Millay
- Katherine Swimm
TUPIT Faculty and Courses
School of Arts and Sciences
- Hilary Binda, Poetry and Visual Art; Gender and Literature; Writing Composition
- Gregory Crane, Comparative Epic
- Heather Curtis, Religion and Politics in American History
- María-Concepción Lagunas Davis, Spanish Language
- Kevin Dunn, The English Bible; Short Fiction
- Susan Ernst; Introduction to Biology
- Jennifer Eyl, From Jesus to Yeezus
- Daanika Gordon, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Erin Kelly, Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Civic Studies
- Dana Leeman, Mentorship and the Adult Learner
- John Lurz, General View of English Literature
- Heather Nathans, Acting Shakespeare
- Stephan Pennington, History of African American Music
- Quinn Phillips, The Apology
- Kim Ruane, Quantitative Reasoning, Financial Math and Intro to Coding
- Suzy Russinoff, Ethics Bowl facilitation
- Jill Weinberg, Sociology of Law
- Daanika Gordon, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- Roshad Meeks and Taylor Parrish, Environmental Justice and World Literature
- Amy Millay, Spanish Language
- Stephan Pennington, History of African American Music
- Ravi Shankar, Memoir Writing, Poetry
- Stephen Muscolino, English
- Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Introduction to Psychology
- Adaner Usmani, Introduction to Social Theory
Tisch College of Civic Life
School of Engineering
Tufts University School of Medicine
- Kim Dong-Breen, Nutrition Science
- Kirby Johnson, Introduction to Genetics
- Fernando Ona, Health and Human Rights
- Carolyn Rubin
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
- Eulogio Guzman, Latin American Art and Architecture
- Chantal Zakari, Graphic Arts
- Michael Smoot, Drawing
The Fletcher School
- Bridget Conley, International Law and Civil Society: Genocide
- Bridget Conley and Alex DeWaal, African Narratives
Cohort One Fellows:
- Shakir Abdullah
- Rahim Gray
- Joseph Irizarry
- Devon McNeil
Cohort Two Fellows:
- Steven Johnson
- Bobby Iacoviello
- Aaron Smith
- Hector Bannister
- Marie Lafontant
- Eugene Ivey
Cohort Three Fellows:
- Nurudeen Alabi
- Rahmel Askari
- Christina Bernbaum
- Willie Cabrera
- David Delvalle
- Dararong Jimmy Heang
- Jeff Raphael
TUPIT Tufts Undergraduate Student Coordinators
2023-2024
- Lizzie Friedman
- Jack Steen
2022-2023
- Lizzie Friedman
- Meira Downie
- BR Rose
2021-2022
- Claudia Guetta
- Thomas Levy
- Celia Strumph