Executive Director
Robert 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.
Associate Director of Program Development & Operations – Keisha Burrow (Slaughter) kss227@cornell.edu
Associate Director of Student Services – Betsye Violette erc87@cornell.edu
Re-entry Associate – Sarah Cushman sjc329@cornell.edu
In-prison Program
Maddie Reynolds, CPEP Librarian – Olin & Uris Libraries
Sage Weber, Program Coordinator – Auburn Correctional Facility
Rachael Fieweger, Program Coordinator – Cayuga Correctional Facility
Susanna Hempstead Plevyak, Program Coordinator – Five Points Correctional Facility
Tess Pendergrast, Research Associate – Global Development
Advisory Board
Katherine McComas, Vice Provost of Engagement & Land Grant Affairs, ex officio
Andrew Bell, Associate Professor, Global Development
Bryan Sykes, Associate Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy
Emma Li ’20, J.D., CPEP Teaching Assistant and Cornell Alumna
Esta Bigler, Director ILR’s Labor and Employment Law Program in NYC
Ghazah Abbasi, Postdoctoral Associate, Brooks School of Public Policy
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
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Emerita
Stephen Kim, Assistant Director, ILR WIDE & Curriculum Specialist, IDP
Paula Ioanide, Qualitative Research Methodologist, Center for Policing Equity
Sadé Lindsay, Assistant Research Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy
Toni Murdough, Epic CPEP Tutor and Volunteer
Jan Zeserson, Anthropology and East Asia Studies, CPEP Board Chair Emerita
