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Executive Director
Rob Scott is Executive Director of the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP), and Adjunct Asst. Professor with the Education Minor in Global Development, also affiliated with the minor in Crime, Prisons, Education and Justice (Government). robscott@cornell.edu

Board Chair
Judith Appleton is AH Caspary Professor of Immunology, Emerita. She also served as Vice Provost with oversight over the Cornell Prison Education Program and has taught for the program at Cayuga CF and Five Points CF.

Deputy Director – Keisha Burrow kss227@cornell.edu

Assistant Director of Academic Reentry – Sarah Cushman sjc329@cornell.edu

Communications Director – Jenna LaPietra jl4637@cornell.edu

CPEP Librarian – Olin & Uris Libraries – Maddie Reynolds

Research Associate – Global Development – Tess Pendergrast

Program Assistant – Mariam Botana de Armas

Advisory Board
Katherine McComas, Vice Provost of Engagement & Land Grant Affairs, ex officio
Andrew Bell, Associate Professor, Global Development
Bill Fry, Professor Emeritus, Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology
Bryan Sykes, Associate Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy
Deb Streeter, Professor Emerita, SC Johnson College of Business
Elaine Westbrooks, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian and Vice Provost
Emma Li, Cornell ’20
Jamila Michener, Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy, Inaugural Director of the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures, and Senior Associate Dean of Public Engagement at the Brooks School of Public Policy
Jesse Johnston, CPEP Alumni
Marjolein Schat, Adjunct Associate Professor, Tompkins Cortland Community College
Molly Reed, Co-Founder, ReMark Navigation
Peter Enns, Professor at Cornell University, served as the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences
Tom Owens, Emeritus Faculty, School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Biology Section
Toni Murdough, Epic CPEP Tutor and Volunteer

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