Symposium Participants
Featured Speakers
John Baldwin
Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections
John Baldwin is Director of the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC). Previously, he served as Deputy Director for Administration. As Director, he oversees the operations of nine correctional institutions, eight community-based correctional agencies (CBC’s), and the DOC Central Office. Director Baldwin is responsible for over 4,000 staff and 38,000 offenders. Appointed Director by Governor Culver and reappointed by Governor Branstad, he has over 36 years experience in Iowa corrections, including helping establish the DOC in 1983. In 1997, Director Baldwin helped develop the Iowa Corrections Offender Network a management based system which collects the data necessary to implement evidence-based practices. He successfully led the Department’s efforts in 2002 to be designated as a Charter Agency, which allowed DOC the flexibility to improve its government business practices. Director Baldwin received a Master’s Degree in Political Science and Public Administration from Iowa State University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the University of Iowa.
Linda Snetselaar
Associate Provost of Outreach and Engagement, University of Iowa
Dr. Snetselaar is the Associate Provost of Outreach and Engagement in the Office of the Provost at the University of Iowa. She is also a Professor of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health and holds an endowed chair of Preventive Nutrition Education in the Department of Epidemiology. In 2012-2013 she served as the University of Iowa’s President of Faculty Senate. She is also the director of the Nutrition Center and has served in the past as the Interim Departmental Executive Officer for the College of Public Health Department of Community and Behavioral Health. Now the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, her research interests include relationships between diet and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and renal disease with several current research projects focused on promoting health and reducing obesity risk factors in Iowa communities. Her work has been focused on community schools and businesses in Iowa.
Carolyn Colvin
Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Education
Carolyn Colvin is a faculty member in the Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) program in the College of Education’s Department of Teaching and Learning. She teaches courses for undergraduate and graduate students focused on literacy for adolescents and adults, sociolinguistic theory, critical discourse analysis and often incorporates service learning components in her courses. Since arriving on Iowa’s campus, she has served in the College of Education as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Academic Affairs, as program coordinator of LLC and English Education, and has chaired the University Diversity Committee. She has been actively involved in faculty governance at the University, serving as the President of Faculty Senate. She currently chairs the University’s Research Council. A key agenda item for this year’s Research Council is to explore the links between economic development, the University’s research mission, and publicly engaged scholarship. Colvin is the recipient of the University’s Catalyst Award, the Brody Award for engaged service to the University, and more recently, she received the Graduate College’s Outstanding Mentor award.
Presenters
Edgar Barens
Director, Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Edgar Barens received his Bachelors degree and Masters of Fine Arts in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. His body of work includes documentary films, experimental shorts, music videos and public service announcements, which have been screened at numerous film festivals, conferences, broadcast nationally and internationally, as well as distributed educationally. Barens' work has received funding from the Illinois Arts Council, the Open Society Institutes' Project on Death in America and the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture, the Independent Feature Project, the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the International Documentary Association, with additional support from Working Films and the Blue Mountain Center.
Heather Erwin
The WiderNet Project
Heather Erwin is an expert in correctional education who has worked extensively with indigent, incarcerated and at-risk populations in the U.S. examining the impact of access to education on incarceration and recidivism rates. She has worked for faith-based lobbying organizations, a death penalty moratorium project, and an alternative sentencing, drug treatment program for non-violent offenders. She currently serves as a US Department of Education OVAE LINCS Forum Subject Matter Expert, approved Resource Reviewer and National Trainer. Heather has a JD from the University of Iowa School of Law, a BA from the University of Iowa and is currently working toward a PhD in Education at Northcentral University.
Anne Gaglioti
Family Medicine
Anne Gaglioti is a family physician and assistant clinical professor of Family Medicine at the University of Iowa. She, in partnership with the Hope House Community Correctional Facility in the 8th Judicial District and the Free Medical and Dental Clinic of Iowa City, founded the Transitions Clinic in February of 2010. This clinic serves men transitioning to the community at the Hope House via home visits and a monthly clinic at the Free Medical Clinic. The clinic is staffed by Dr. Gaglioti and Dr. Meghan Connett, also on faculty in the Department of Family Medicine. The clinic provides health care and a personal relationship with a care provider for Hope House residents at a critical time. Dr. Gaglioti attended Case Western Reserve University Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio and completed her residency in Family Medicine there as well. She went on to a fellowship in primary care health policy at The Robert Graham Center and Georgetown University in Washington, DC. While a fellow, she worked as a physician at a community health center located in the DC jail. Prior to coming to Iowa, she was an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF in the Department of Family Medicine where she worked as a member of the Correctional Medicine Consultation Network. This group was tasked with supporting health care delivery reform in the California State Prison System after it underwent receivership. Dr. Gaglioti has a special interest in caring for people on the margins, especially those who have had experience with incarceration.
Emily Guenther
Grinnell College
Liberal Arts in Prison Program
Emily Guenther has directed the Liberal Arts in Prison Program at Grinnell College for the last six years. Hailing from small-town Wisconsin, she first came to Iowa in 2003 to attend Grinnell College. She volunteered at the Newton Correctional Facility while she was a Grinnell student, and after she graduated, she became the first full-time staff person for the Liberal Arts in Prison Program. Over the last six years, she has developed a college program at the Newton Correctional Facility where incarcerated men can earn a full year's worth of Grinnell College credit. The courses are taught by Grinnell College faculty and are equivalent to courses Grinnell students take on Grinnell's campus.
Cliff Missen
COEP
The WiderNet Project
Cliff Missen is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he directs the WiderNet@UNC research lab and the non-profit WiderNet Project. Missen oversees the WiderNet Project’s efforts to improve digital communication in developing countries through enhanced human capacity and research into low cost applications of information technology.
A TED Fellow in 2007 and a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria in 1999, he has made presentations at Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Google, World Bank, MIT, USAID, and dozens of professional conferences. Missen has provided consulting services to the U.S. Department of State, the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, amongst others.
Jacki Rand
Department of History
History Corps
Jacki Thompson Rand is an associate professor of History at the University of Iowa where she teaches courses on the history of Native North America, federal Indian policy and law, pubic history, and the history of museums. She is the co-coordinator of the UI American Indian and Native Studies Program, faculty advisor to History Corps, and UI coordinator for the Humanities Action Lab. She is writing a book on the intersection of violence against Native women in a southeastern community, race, gender, anti-tribalism, and self-determinative tribal governance in the mid-20th century. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution from 1983 to 1994. She was a planner for the National Museum of the American Indian from 1989-1994.
Mary Trachsel
Department of Rhetoric
Associate Professor Mary Trachsel earned her PhD in English with an emphasis in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin. She came to the Iowa Rhetoric Department in 1989. At Iowa she has led advisory groups in the Rhetoric Department’s Professional Development Program and taught General Education Rhetoric and Interpretation of Literature as well as advanced writing courses and graduate courses in feminist pedagogy, feminist ethics, and the history of literacy. She teaches animal studies courses as first-year seminars and honors seminars. Her current research interests focus on human-animal relationships and animal communication, with a special interest in the discourse of ape language research. Mary has volunteered at IMCC as part of the Oakdale Writers' Workshop for the past seven years, and is a member of the Oakdale Community Choir.
Rachel Williams
Art
Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Mary Cohen
School of Music
Music Education
Mary Cohen, Associate Professor of Music Education, is involved in two university-community partnership programs related to her teaching and research: the Voices of Experience, where she mentors a music education student who directs the mixed chorus of adults age 50 and older, and the Oakdale Community Choir, comprised of men incarcerated (inside singers) at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center and women and men from outside the prison (outside singers). She completed her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate of philosophy in music education at the University of Kansas and has ten years experience teaching general music and leading choirs in Lawrence and Kansas City areas.
Mark Fullenkamp
Director of Web Services
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Mark Fullenkamp is a photographer and artist. He is directing the Ft. Madison Prison Memory Project and collaborating with the University of Iowa and Iowa state institutions in areas of public engagement and student success.
In addition to working on documentaries, he is also the Director of Web Services for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Iowa. In 2001, he earned an MBA with focuses in MIS and Marketing at the University's Tippie College of Business. He also has a broad background in the humanities with B.A.'s in Journalism, Political Science, and History.
Gemma Goodale-Sussen
Department of English
Gemma Goodale-Sussen is a PhD candidate in the University of Iowa's English Department, where she studies 20th-century American literature with a focus on prison narratives. A 2014 Obermann Graduate Fellow, she received her Master's degree in English literature from UIowa in 2013 and her Bachelor's from Grinnell College in 2007. She has been volunteering in Iowa prisons since 2006, leading creative writing workshops and American studies courses at Newton Correctional Facility and participating in the IMCC Oakdale Writers' Workshop since moving to Iowa City in 2011. She is currently working with an interdisciplinary group on the Ft. Madison Prison Memory project at Iowa State Penitentiary.
Kathrina Litchfield
College of Education
Language, Literacy, and Culture
Kathrina Litchfield received her MLIS degree from the University of Iowa in 2014, and a BA in English in 1997. She is a 2014 Obermann Graduate Fellow, and a 2014 PAGE Scholar with Imagining America. Her current research focuses on the benefits of strategic library and literacy programming in improving the lives of the incarcerated and reducing recidivism. Since 2011, she has facilitated a monthly book group for incarerated men at IMCC Oakdale. The experience has encouraged her to explore the relation of book reading and group discussion to perspective-taking and other empathic skills that lead to improved pro-social behaviors, and support the aims of successful restorative justice practice.
Nicole Nisly
Internal Medicine
Dr. Nicole Nisly completed medical school at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, followed by Internal Medicine Residency at IASERJ Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a second Internal Medicine Residency and General Medicine Clinical Fellowship at the University of Iowa. She is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Department Chair for Diversity. Her clinical, teaching and research interests are in the area of cultural competency, health disparities, LGBTQ health and Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She directs the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Clinic at Iowa River Landing, University of Iowa and also co-directs the LGBTQ clinic at the same location, where she also practices and teaches general Internal Medicine Primary Care.
Janette Taylor
Nursing
Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies
Janette Y. Taylor, PhD, RN, WHCNP-BC, FAAN, is an associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Iowa. She is a certified women’s health care nurse practitioner with specialization in obstetrics, gynecological, and neonatal nursing. Dr. Taylor’s research has focused on race/ethnicity as variables in nursing research, African American women’s experiences of intimate partner violence (e.g., domestic violence), the health of women prisoners, reconnecting incarcerated women with their children, and using narrative art therapy with incarcerated abused women.
Dr. Taylor served as a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions to DHHS Regulations for Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research. She is also a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Taylor completed her PhD at the University of Washington-Seattle and holds a certificate in Women’s Studies.
Robert Wallace
College of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Robert B. Wallace is Irene Ensminger Stecher professor of epidemiology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health and Medicine. He has been a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and the National Advisory Council on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine, and has been a past chair of IOM’s Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and IOM’s Board on the Health of Select Populations. He is the author of many peer-reviewed publications and book chapters related to aging. Dr. Wallace’s research interests are in clinical and population epidemiology, and focus on the causes and prevention of disabling conditions among older persons. He has had substantial experience in the conduct of both observational cohort studies of older persons and clinical trials, including preventive interventions related to fracture, cancer, coronary disease, falls prevention and the health of older women. He is a co-investigator for the Women’s Health Initiative, a national intervention trial exploring the prevention of breast and colon cancer and coronary disease. In the WHI, he has emphasized the study of older women, including the study of risks of chronic illness and physical function, and genetic precursors of chronic illness. He is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Health and Retirement Study, a national cohort study of the health and economic status of older Americans, and a co-investigator of the National Health and Aging Trends study, a cohort study of older Americans investigating the causes and management of disability.
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams is an artist and teacher currently employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. She has a joint appointment between the School of Art and Art History (Intermedia) and Gender Women's and Sexuality Studies. She is originally from North Carolina (the Eastern Coastal Plain), but she has lived in Iowa since 1998, and taught at The University of Iowa since 1999. Her work as a researcher and creative scholar has always been focused on women's issues, community, art, and people who are incarcerated. She earned a BFA in Painting and Drawing from East Carolina University and an MFA (Studio Art) and a Ph.D. (Art Education) from Florida State University.