Simone Weil Davis is a daughter, sister and mother. She teaches in the Ethics, Society & Law program at Trinity College, University of Toronto. Simone brought the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program model up to Canada in 2010, and went on to help Walls to Bridges emerge as an autonomous, national Canadian pedagogical program, bringing together incarcerated and campus-based students as classmates. She is a proud member of the Walls to Bridges Collective. Recent publications include the co-edited Turning Teaching Inside-Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation (Palgrave, 2013) and a co-authored article with incarcerated educator Bruce Michaels that appeared in Social Justice Volume 42(2) in 2016 entitled “Ripping Off Some Room for People to ‘Breathe’ Together: Peer-to-peer Education in Prison”.
