Incarcerated Scholars, Qualitative Inquiry, and Subjugated Knowledge: The Value of Incarcerated and Post-Incarcerated Scholars in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Michelle Jones has resided at the Indiana Women's Prison since 1997. Since graduating from Ball State University, she has served as a teaching assistant in higher education programs at the prison. During the academic year 2014-2015, she audited graduate-level courses in American Studies and Gender Studies at Indiana University via videoconferencing. Michelle is also a peer facilitator and choreographer of the liturgical praise dance ensemble, Lifted!, and a vocalist in the ensemble and prison choir. She was one of the original members of the One Net-One Life Mosquito Net Project, a prison-based community outreach program that manufactures mosquito nets free-of-charge for communities battling malaria throughout Africa and South America