Stories of Healing From Those Impacted by Incarceration
Support for Project Mend comes from the Center for Community Alternatives; a Humanities New York Post-Incarceration Humanities Partnership, generously supported by the Mellon Foundation; the Engaged Humanities Network; the Humanities Center; the SOURCE; the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition; and a CUSE Research Grant.
Cover of the inaugural issue of Mend
Creative expression and community collaboration are at the heart of successful engaged humanities initiatives. Over the past year, Patrick W. Berry, associate professor of writing and rhetoric in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been working with justice-impacted people in Central New York and across the United States on the development of “Mend,” a journal that celebrates their lives and creative work. (Read the full SU News article.)