Our Team

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 that runs in 3 facilities, at MCI-Concord, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center, and Northeastern Correctional Center. Hilary directs the MyTERN reentry program on the Tufts University campus, teaching 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 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.