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Center for Hope and Redemption

The Center for Hope and Redemption is a Project Rebound community-university collaboration committed to supporting multidimensional work aimed at disrupting cycles of harm that are rooted in systems of oppression. Through centering the leadership and agency of scholars and practitioners who have experienced or been system-impacted by mass incarceration, the Center aims through socially engaged, policy-directed research, exhibits, events, programming, and community initiatives to explore, inspire, and support transformative approaches to justice that promote individual justice while reducing harm and fostering collective healing, education, accountability, and empowerment.

The mission of CHR is to institutionalize the support and inclusion of research, leadership, and advocacy led by people directly impacted by mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex.

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.

Claudia Rankine

Racial Imaginary Institutute

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Claudia Rankine
Author of "Citizen: An American Lyric" and "Just Us"

Ribbon Cutting

Grand Opening - March 15, 2023

The Center for Hope and Redemption

...is grateful to artist Jos Sances for creating seven portraits of revolutionary movement leaders that includes, Ida B. Wells, Nelson Mandela, and Dolores Huerta. Portraits of Angela Y. Davis, Maya Angelou, Ruthie Wilson-Gilmore, and Fredrick Douglass reside at the John Irwin Transformative Housing Initiative. May their spirits watch over our community of scholars, activists, and radical thinkers until we change everything!

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THE ART OF
JOS SANCES

Bio

Jos Sances was born John Joseph Sances in Boston, attended Montserrat School of Visual Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. For over the past 40 years he has made his living as a Printmaker and Muralist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 MAYA ANGELOU  RUTHIE W.G.  M  Nelson Mandela 

    NM     Fedrick Douglas    Ida B. Wells

The Center for Hope and Redemption is furnished by a grant from Galaxy Gives and our abolitionist library of BIPOC writers is generously donated by Haymarket Books.

  Galaxy Gives

Haymarket Books

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Frieda Afary
Author

Frieda in Class reading a Book

Frieda in Class

Socialist Feminism: A New Approach

Personal Development

Our goal is to provide opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals to develop intellectually, personally, and professionally as scholars and leaders.

Social Science

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.

Education and Teaching

Provide opportunities for a transformative educational and research experience and environment for all graduate fellows, students and support the recruitment of high-quality and diverse visiting faculty and staff.

Grand Opening

New Exhibit Conveys Community Through Lively Art

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The "Ancient Guide" exhibit, located in the CSUF Salz-Pollack Atrium Gallery in the Pollack Library, is open to the public until mid-December 2023. 

Staudents and Staff

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Kids at Exhibit

Sergio Presentation