Freedom Education Project Puget Sound

🐙 In June, FEPPS partnered with the Project to offer a workshop on Octopus Intelligence. 🐙

A team from the MaST Center Aquarium Highline College brought a live octopus into the prison!

The contents of the workshop also prompted an important conversation on the intersections of consciousness, intelligence, education, and social understandings of these three factors.

Welcome the Inaugural Members of the Womxn’s Higher Education in Prison Consortium!

We are thrilled to announce and warmly welcome the inaugural members of the Womxn’s Higher Education in Prison Consortium (WHEP)!

Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS)
Georgetown University Prisons and Justice Initiative
Goucher Prison Education Partnership
MVSU Prison Education Partnership Program
New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons (NJ-STEP)
Portland State University HEP
Second Chance Prison Education Program at Simmons College of Kentucky
Tennessee Higher Education Initiative (THEI)
The Wesleyan Center for Prison Education
UPWARD (Unlocking Potential With Academic Resources and Development)
Utah Prison Education Project

Our members represent diverse, dedicated, and visionary HEP programs from across the country. Together, we will collaborate to address the unique challenges of providing higher education in women-designated prisons, including improving access, sharing resources, advocating for equity, and fostering leadership among incarcerated students.

This is an exciting beginning. We look forward to shaping our collective mission, vision, and actions together to make a meaningful and sustainable impact.

To follow our activity and join the discussion, please sign up for the FEPPS listserv and join the RCHEP group at the link in our bio!