Claudia Peña
Co-Director, UCLA Center for Justice
Claudia Peña is an artist and the founding Co-Director of the Center for Justice at UCLA, which works to dismantle the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration by expanding higher education, facilitating creative spaces and by promoting transformative practices and movement building on university campuses, in system-impacted communities and correctional facilities. She is currently producing the show Lyrics From Lockdown, a multimedia production headed to Broadway telling two stories of incarceration using comedy, hip hop, calypso, poetry and much more. Peña is also on the For Freedoms team, a national arts organization working to model and inspire creative civic engagement.
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When people in prison are given creative outlets, the impact is life-changing. Hear from a hip-hop artist setting up prison recording studios, an architect designing more huma...