10 min

Elaine Leeder: Thinking About Incarceration Social Vision Talks

    • Judaism

What can the wisdom of our ancestors teach us about approaching questions around incarceration today? In this episode we’ll be hearing from renowned scholar and educator Elaine Leeder. A dean emerita at Sonoma State University, Elaine has also written a number of books and spoken at length about her experience working with incarcerated individuals. With a background in psychology and a personal acquaintance with Jewish teaching, Elaine offers in this lecture a unique answer to the most difficult problems relating to prisons and the justice system today.

What can the wisdom of our ancestors teach us about approaching questions around incarceration today? In this episode we’ll be hearing from renowned scholar and educator Elaine Leeder. A dean emerita at Sonoma State University, Elaine has also written a number of books and spoken at length about her experience working with incarcerated individuals. With a background in psychology and a personal acquaintance with Jewish teaching, Elaine offers in this lecture a unique answer to the most difficult problems relating to prisons and the justice system today.

10 min