“The Justice Education Initiative for the Claremont Colleges” –
Romarilyn Ralston
The trail-blazing Justice Education Center at the Claremont Colleges provides transformative educational pathways, policy advocacy, and reintegration support for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and non-incarcerated students. Through the Inside-Out model, interdisciplinary curriculum, arts/humanities programming, and community partnerships, the Center challenges racial injustice, reduces recidivism, increases awareness of mass incarceration’s impacts, and promotes human dignity across all backgrounds.
Romarilyn Ralston is Senior Director of the Justice Education Center for Claremont Colleges and the former executive director of Project Rebound at California State Fullerton. After serving 23 years in prison, she earned a bachelor’s degree with Honors in Gender & Feminist Studies from Pitzer College, then went on to achieve a master’s degree in liberal arts from Washington University in St. Louis. She completed many fellowships and received numerous social justice awards. In 2022 she received a Gubernatorial Pardon. She is a Ph.D. student in Executive Management at the Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Business.