Leo Hylton
Alliance Fellow @Alliance For Higher Education In Prison
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WORK HISTORY
Alliance Fellow @Alliance For Higher Education In Prison
Denver, CO, US
The Alliance Fellow is a currently incarcerated person who will collaborate with staff on a variety of tasks related to project planning and implementation, content creation, communication, and research. The fellow will spend five hours a week meeting and co-working with staff via Zoom and five hours a week working independently on research, writing, and editing. The allocation of time between Zoom and independent work may vary, depending upon tasks in progress, Alliance needs, and mutual schedule availability. The fellow and the Alliance team will establish a detailed work plan on a quarterly basis to ensure the opportunity for continued work in the event that communication is briefly limited or restricted during the fellowship term.
EDUCATION
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University
Master's degree
University of Maine at Augusta
Associate of Arts - AA
University of Maine at Augusta
Bachelor of Arts - BA
ABOUT LEO HYLTON
I am a PhD student at George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. My education and work are based in trauma-informed, healing-centered Restorative Justice practices, and are focused on Social Justice Advocacy and Activism, with a vision toward an abolitionist future. Toward that end, I am working as a Visiting Instructor at Colby College, co-teaching AY346 – Carcerality and Abolition. I am a lead facilitator of Maine State Prison’s Restorative Practices Steering Committee, serve on Colby College’s Restorative Practices Team, and provide consultation to RJ practitioners in the US and abroad. I am a core organizer of the Carter School Working Group on Forgiveness and Reconciliation, creating spaces of co-learning, growth, and trauma healing in the context of forgiveness and reconciliation. With the same focus, I also serve as a Freedom & Captivity facilitator of the abolitionist community-building course \"Journeys of Trauma, Healing, and & %20Captivity%20Curriculum%20Project).I recently began working as one of the first ever Alliance Fellows for the National Alliance for Higher Education in Prison, seeking to open education and employment opportunities for incarcerated people across the US I am also a columnist for the publication The Bollard (formerly Mainer), where I write a monthly column to raise public consciousness around the existence and power of humanity in carceral spaces (https://mainernews.com/author/leo-hylton/). My education, work, and research are informed by my experience as a currently incarcerated citizen in Maine State Prison, where I live and serve my local and surrounding communities through as many avenues as God opens for me. For more, please read, “Trauma, Spirituality, and Healing: A Journey through the Lens of an Incarcerated Person”.
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