Arts + Justice

Many organizations and groups on campus work with incarcerated communities.

• Stanford's Prison Renaissance chapter collaborates with artists in San Quentin State Prison to create a zine called Incarceratedly Yours.
• Jamie Meltzer, Associate Professor of Art & Art History and Program Director of the M.F.A. Program in Documentary Film, received both Sundance Institute and MarArthur grants for his 2017 film True Conviction. 
• Janice Ross, Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, teaches Prisons and Performance and Dance in Prison: The Arts, Juvenile Justice, and Rehabilitation in America.
• The Camera as Witness Program utilizes the medium of documentary film to educate the Stanford community about human rights, energy policy, immigration, and many other topics and disciplines. Many documentaries featured in the program have focused on incarceration, including Kingsley, which was presented in 2018.
• Amy Elkins, Stanford MFA candidate, has several ongoing series that look at incarceration, including The Golden State and Parting Words, both of which focus on people serving death row sentences.

Jennifer Brody, Professor, Theater and Performance Studies and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Emile DeWeaver, Co-Director of Prison Renaissance at Stanford

Jamie Meltzer, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, and Director of True Conviction (2017) and Huntsville Station (2020).

Jisha Menon, Associate Professor, Theater and Performance Studies, Director, Stanford Arts Institute

Debbie Mukamal, Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center

Janice Ross, Professor, Theater and Performance Studies

Rose Salseda, Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

Selby Schwartz, Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric and Co-Director of Prison Renaissance at Stanford

David Sklansky, Professor of Law, Co-Director of Stanford Criminal Justice Center