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  • Reflections from Baltimore: “Finding Solutions in Strength” and “Years and Small Steps”

    The following are two reflections from the engaged spring break experience of the half-credit CEL course “Food, Faith, and Justice”. The course explores the followng questions: why are people food insecure in Baltimore in 2024? How is the community responding (through direct service, grassroots organizing, policy, research, and advocacy)? How do we fit in? And…


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  • Keith Lamar to perform from incarceration October 3, 2024

    For more information on “Freedom First” and the performer, Keith Lamar, a poet on death row, who will perform via bluetooth speaker during the concert. here is a NYT piece that explains both very well: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/arts/music/keith-lamar-death-row-freedom-first.html


  • Why? A Reflection on Inside-Out

    Written by Amira Faden This past semester, I have had the honor of taking a poetry class through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. The course took place in a local prison: 8 of the students came from Bucknell (“outside students”) and 8 of the students were incarcerated in the local prison (“inside students”). We met…