Lori Gruen

Professor Lori Gruen is the Senior Advisor to CEO & Founder of Freedom Reads, Dwayne Betts. She is a writer and editor and has published over a dozen books and scores of articles and chapters. In addition to being a named chair in Philosophy at Wesleyan University, she has taught at Princeton, NYU, Sanford, Bayview Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Chelsea, NY (now closed), and the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, CT, when it was a women’s prison. She is one of the faculty founders of Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education and continues to teach and advise at Cheshire Correctional Institution, a maximum-security men’s prison and York Correctional Institution, a woman’s prison.