Rosemary Russ | EXPO Wisconsin

Dr. Rosemary Russ is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as well as the coordinator of the Tutoring Program inside the Dane County Jail. As an ally, her purpose in her work with EXPO is to follow alongside system-impacted people to change the local and state narrative around who has knowledge and expertise related to the carceral system. Her primary focus is on grant writing and using writing to elevate the lived realities of incarceration for the local community unaware of its harms.

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People in our communities without direct experience with incarceration are often ill-informed of the negative, and catastrophic, effects on earnings and employment, physical and mental health, housing and education, and family well-being created and perpetuated by the carceral system. Through our advocacy work in local and state government, EXPO creates space, opportunity, and support for system-impacted individuals to raise their voices about the systemic and institutional harm of the incarceration. In the words of one of our organizers, EXPO’s work “shines a light of awareness and truth where others refuse to acknowledge.”