Jared Bozydaj is an incarcerated writer and activist. He is the co-founder of Products of Our Environment, a collaborative of scholars and artists working on issues of environmental justice and incarceration across the prison wall, which is supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.
Adam Roberts, a founding member of the Attica Writers’ Workshop, is a peer counselor, educator, and working visual artist. He has been in prison since 1999 and currently resides in Fishkill, New York, where he trains service dogs. You can read an excerpt of his forthcoming memoir, The Squeeze Machine, at adamrobertswrites.medium.com. He can be found on Instagram at @Adam_drawseverything.
Isabel Lane is a scholar and teacher whose work focuses on the intersections of literature and environmental harm—from nuclear weapons and waste to prisons and the environments they contain, border, and exist within. With Jared Bozydaj, she is the co-founder of Products of Our Environment. She is currently a lecturer in the Harvard College Writing Program.
CM Campbell received his BA in fine art with a studio emphasis at San Francisco State University, and his MFA in comics at California College of the Arts. His work as a comic artist can be most prominently found in editorial cartooning for publications like Hyperallergic and The Margins.
Jane Robbins Mize is a writer, teacher, and scholar. Her work focuses on the colonization and industrialization of North America and on human relations to the environment. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of literature and creative writing at Hamilton College and a member of the working group Products of Our Environment.
David Pellow is professor and chair in environmental studies and director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a member of the Products of Our Environment working group.
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