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Our Team

Tyee Griffith is the founding manager of the Justice Education Initiative. In this role, Griffith oversees Inside-Out Prison Exchange classes, co-curricular justice-related activities, prison policy efforts, and community-campus partnerships. Previously, Griffith worked with the Prison Education Project at Cal Poly Pomona, where she served as the program coordinator for PEP’s Reintegration Academy and as a career counselor. She earned her BA in sociology at Cal State LA, and her master’s in public administration at Cal Poly Pomona.  She is currently a political science doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University.

Nigel Boyle is the lead dean and faculty liaison of the Justice Education Initiative. A professor of political studies at Pitzer College, Boyle is also the dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs.

Tessa Hicks-Peterson is an associate professor of urban studies and assistant vice president of community engagement at Pitzer College, and served as the Inside-Out faculty liaison from 2014 to 2018. In her new role as director of the  Office of Consortial Academic Collaboration (OCAC), she oversees the Justice Education Initiative, which orchestrates academic collaboration and administrative support for this intercollegiate effort across The Claremont Colleges.

Yune Hie Kim is the administrative assistant for the Justice Education Initiative.

The Claremont Colleges Justice Education Working Group was established in 2017 to develop an integrated consortium-wide justice education program at The Claremont Colleges. Composed of faculty, staff and administrative representatives from across the colleges, the members of the working group are:

  • Brenda Bolinger, Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations, Pitzer College
  • Nigel Boyle,* Justice Education Faculty Liaison, Professor of Political Studies, Dean of Faculty, and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Pitzer College
  • Suchi Branfman,* Lecturer in Dance and Choreographer, Scripps College
  • Susan Castagnetto, Learning Community Coordinator (Pomona), Director of the Intercollegiate Feminist Center and Learning Community Coordinator, Scripps College
  • Ambereen Dadabhoy,* Learning Community Coordinator, Assistant Professor of Literature, Harvey Mudd College
  • Martina Ebert, Senior Director of Foundation Relations and Strategic Initiatives, Pomona College
  • Gabriela Gamiz, Director of Community Engagement, Harvey Mudd College
  • Tyee Griffith,* Program Manager for Justice Education Initiative, Pitzer College
  • Joe Hernandez, Coordinator for the Rising Scholars Program at Mt. San Antonio College, graduate of Claremont Graduate University
  • Tessa Hicks-Peterson,* Director of the Office for Consortial Academic Collaboration, The Claremont Colleges
  • Thomas Kim,* Learning Community Coordinator, Associate Professor of Politics, Scripps
  • Yune Hie Kim, Administrative Assistant for Justice Education Initiative, Pitzer College
  • Dan Livesay,* Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College
  • Leann Nabors, OCAC Administrative Coordinator, Pitzer College
  • Adrian Pantoja,* Learning Community Coordinator, Professor of Political Studies and Chicano Studies, Pitzer College
  • Erin M. Runions,* Chair of Religious Studies, Pomona College
  • Derik Smith,* Learning Community Coordinator, Associate Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College

(* indicates faculty trained to facilitate Inside-Out courses at the Claremont Colleges and carceral facilities)

Our Consortium

The Claremont Colleges is a consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts colleges (Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps) and two graduate institutions (Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute) offering rigorous curricula, small classes, distinguished professors, and personalized instruction in a vibrant residential college community that provides intensive interaction between students and faculty.

Our Supporters

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.  To this end, the foundation supports exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work. To the Justice Education Initiative, they have also allocated funds specifically for the production and support of justice-related artistic endeavors over the five-year course of the founding grant.

The Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation seeks innovative solutions to intractable and persistent problems and strives to cultivate emerging talents and promising models. Their mission is to meet basic human needs while building individual and social resiliency, and the foundation has dedicated more than $75 million in grants to improve the social fabric of life.