The Project Rebound Mural, From Incarceration to Liberation/De la Encarcelación a la Liberación, was a student driven collaboration between SFSU’s AS Project Rebound & the True Colors Mural Project of Berkeley City College. The design resulted from many conversations between members of Project Rebound, the SFSU community and the Berkeley City College Public Art Program’s Mural Design and Creation students. Both parties partnered to give shape to the ideas expressed and shared by people who had firsthand knowledge and experience of life inside the Prison Industrial Complex. The images in this mural represent the ideas of a growing movement against a system that our society has grown far too dependent on.
The design is an empowering expression of AS Project Rebound’s history, based on the program’s mission of serving as living examples of successful reintegration in a college setting.
Images serve to raise the consciousness of our communities by demystifying the negative stereotypes and celebrate the human spirit white breaking though physical and intellectual barriers that separate us all.
Gabriela Segovia-McGahan • Teresa Carillo, Ph.D • Katherine Day
Joseph Miles • Eric Durnell • Airto Morales • Yazmin Madriz
Ena Abarca • Zaba Angel • Joshua Berger • Christy Booth • Aurea Altamirano Cuaresma Erica Davenport • Kevin Davis • Erica Fitzgerald • Inocente Po Guizar Wendy de los Angeles Abarca Hernández • Dartanian Fierce Kaufman • Michelle Lewis Devon Lodge • Yazmin Madriz • Eva Mas • Christiopher Mathieu • Shaye Mckenney Mia McMillan • Sonia Molina • Yano Rivera • Lina Savage • Antū Antinao Soza • Llewelyn Tovar Madoka Wada • Brooke Walton • Theodore Watkins • Carla Wojczuk
In 1967 Professor John Irwin created Project Rebound as a way to matriculate people into San Francisco State University directly from the criminal justice system. The focus of Project Rebound quickly became “Education as an Alternative to Incarceration” and “Turning Former Prisoners into Scholars” after being embraced by Associated Students Incorporated. Since the program’s inception, there have been hundreds of formerly incarcerated folks who have obtained four–year degrees and beyond.
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The program also acts as a liaison between networks throughout the campus at-large as well as throughout the communities in and around the San Francisco bay area. We are involved in working with college ready teens and adults. As such, we utilize a multitude of educational, tutorial, and vocational resources. Wherein we also focus on service providers that can best serve our student’s needs.
It is our contention that it is hard to educate the hungry and homeless. Therefore, we provide our students with support to travel to and from campus. We also provide a welcoming environment with a supportive campus community of compassionate and knowledgeable peers and professionals. From prison to empowerment, from destitution to the notion of “restorative justice”, we are here to aid those who want to help themselves and to help others. We are still about the business of “each –one – teach –one.” Programs like our cannot exist without people like you who are willing to reach back and help those who have supported you. We accept a limited amount of interns and volunteers each semester who are willing to help the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated population prosper.
The Project Rebound staff is looking for students who are dependable and patient with other people. Students will be working both directly and indirectly with formerly incarcerated people, so all students who work with us can not have any ill feelings towards people who come from either prison or the county jail. The interns are expected to maintain routine work ethic for the whole semester. There is no room to jump around because people are going to depend on you for different things.
Our student interns can expect to help students with tutoring, applying to college, filling out the FAFSA application, assisting students with tech and internet issues, event planning, working on special projects with staff, outreach and tabling, and even visiting jails and prisons for educational empowerment workshops.
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