For this episode, Derek Bruff talks with Bahiyyah Muhammad, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Howard University. She teaches courses as part of the national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, courses in which half of her students are Howard students, and the other half are incarcerated individuals. Most Inside-Out courses take place at prisons, but for logistical reasons that was challenging for Bahiyyah. She turned to a set of technologies to facilitate distance learning, and to turn the course into a learning community.

Links

• Bahiyyah Muhammad’s faculty page, http://sociologycriminology.coas.howard.edu/faculty-and-staff_bmuhammad.html

• @DrBMuhammad1 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/drbmuhammad1

• @drmuhammad_experience on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/drmuhammad_experience/

• “Does the Apple Fall Far from Prison?,” Bahiyyah Muhammad at TEDxHowardU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUR2kdevY9s

• The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, http://www.insideoutcenter.org/