Highwire Earth

Dear Highwire readers,

I am pleased to announce the new Editorial Board at Highwire Earth. Ying-Chiang Jeffrey Lee will be our new President and Editor. Shashank Kumar Anand, Kaylie Cohanim, and Sam Ditkovsky will be our new Associate Editors. You can read more about the Editorial Board at the following link:
http://highwire.princeton.edu/about-us/editorial-board/

We look forward to a new year at Highwire with Jeffrey, Shashank, Kaylie, and Sam!

Sincerely,
Emily Wei-Hsin Sun
Outgoing Editor-in-Chief

The Editorial Board Ying-Chiang Jeffrey Lee | President and Editor Jeffrey is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University in the Donia Lab. He has an MPH focusing on Glob…

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For resources on divestment from the Prison-Industrial Complex, see: http://princetonspear.com/prison-divestment-2020

https://highwire.princeton.edu/2016/02/01/americans-are-paying-too-much-for-mass-incarceration-prison-education-programs-provide-a-way-out/

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