Brave Behind Bars: Prison education program focuses on computing skills for women
TEJI Graduate Fellows Marisa Gaetz and Martin Nisser, co-leaders of Brave Behind Bars.
From MIT News:
A programming language textbook might not be the first thing you’d expect to see when walking into a correctional facility.
The creators of the Brave Behind Bars program are hoping to change that.
Founded in 2020, Brave Behind Bars is a pandemic-born introductory computer science and career-readiness program for incarcerated women, based out of The Educational Justice Institute at MIT (TEJI). It’s taught both online and in-person, and the pilot program brought together 30 women from four correctional facilities across New England to study web design.