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Dr. Clarice Thomas ('10) selected PEN America's 2021-22 Writing for Justice Fellowship
September 23, 2021
Dr. Clairce Thomas, M.Ed. '10, has been named one of 10 people nationwide selected for PEN America's 2021-2022 Writing for Justice Fellowship Program.
This fellowship program supports emerging or established authors as they write pieces “that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and catalyze public debate,” according to PEN America’s website.
As a PEN America Fellow, Thomas will complete a nonfiction book project, Writing Home, which identifies the societal factors that implicate prison as an inevitable life course for African Americans through a firsthand account of multigenerational incarceration of father and son—the author’s grandfather and uncle.
Thomas is a faculty member at St. Louis University, where she has a dual appointment in the Department of African American Studies and the School of Education and is the director of a program called “Shut It Down” that focuses on the school-to-prison pipeline.
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