Calls from Home

A short documentary film on mass incarceration in Appalachia and one community radio station that is using the airwaves to connect through prison walls.

About the Director: Sylvia Ryerson is a multimedia artist, organizer, and PhD candidate in American studies at Yale University.  For over a decade her work, rooted at the intersection of scholarship, activism and art, has probed the overlapping crises of mass incarceration, rural poverty, and environmental destruction.

Moderated by: Professor Andrew Crespo

Lunch will be provided.