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Our People

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
Jamila Michener has been elected to a two-year term as Board Chair beginning on July 1, 2020. Dr. Michener is Associate Professor of Government and she received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on poverty, racial inequality and public policy in the United States. Her recent book, Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics (Cambridge University Press) examines how Medicaid–the nation’s public health insurance program for people with low income–affects democratic citizenship. She has taught in the prison program several times and helped launch the Crime, Prisons, Education and Justice minor.

Associate Director of Curriculum & Programming – Keisha Slaughter kss227@cornell.edu
Associate Director of Student Services – Betsye Violette erc87@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, Program Coordinator – Five Points Correctional Facility
Tess Pendergrast, Research Associate – Global Development
Cathi Root, Office Coordinator – Kennedy Hall + remote

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
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Emerita
Stephen Kim, Assistant Director, ILR WIDE & Curriculum Specialist, IDP
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Associate Professor, History
Paula Ioanide, Qualitative Research Methodologist, Center for Policing Equity
Sadé Lindsay, Assistant Research Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy
Thomas Jones, Master’s Candidate, Industrial & Labor Relations
Toni Murdough, prolific CPEP volunteer and tutor
Jan Zeserson, Anthropology and East Asia Studies, CPEP Board Chair Emerita

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