Center for Hope and Redemption

Our mission will be accomplished through:

1. Programming, Research, and Advocacy . CHR graduate fellows and faculty fellows/visiting faculty fellows will contribute to existing research, policy and legislative reforms, and develop programming that centers decarceration and dismantling persistent legacies of criminalization and injustice in collaboration with racial and social justice organizations, scholars and institutional partners across multiple disciplines. Innovative programming or projects will create new networks of interdisciplinary collaboration that promote justice, racial equity, and freedom.
2. Radical Teaching Support . CHR identifies and supports teaching and co-teaching initiatives that provide creative, experiential learning models for CSUF students exploring topics in Carceral Studies, Gender Studies, Criminal Justice, African American Studies, and other disciplines.
3. Advanced Service Models . CHR Faculty fellows integrate community and academic leadership to mitigate barriers to wellbeing, retention, and achievement for graduate fellows and  Faculty at CSUF. Innovative service will be characterized by dynamic opportunities for mentorship of CSUF Faculty by a diverse group of community, corporate, and academic leaders from across California and abroad.

An Intersectional Approach

CHR identifies and supports teaching and co-teaching initiatives that provide creative, experiential learning models for CSUF students exploring topics in Carceral Studies, Gender Studies, Criminal Justice, African American Studies, and other disciplines. CHR  identifies and supports teaching and co-teaching initiatives that provide creative, experiential learning models for CSUF students exploring topics in Carceral Studies, Gender Studies, Criminal Justice, African American Studies, and other disciplines.

A Dynamic Learning Community

Develop a community of scholars, advocate mentors, and advisors to support leadership development. Contribute to an ongoing environment of care, praxis, belonging, and excellence for formerly incarcerated scholars and advocates.

Abolition, Equity, and Uplift

The CHR inspires collective action through an abolitionist framework and Black Feminist lens at the intersections of criminalization, gender, race, and class disparities.

Develop and support data-driven opportunities for student and faculty research and creative collaborations that lead to presentations, publications, community engagement activities, or exhibits/events. In addition to innovative programming or projects that will create new networks of interdisciplinary collaboration that promote justice, racial equity, and freedom.