Piper Kerman at SIUC

1050 South Normal Avenue,Carbondale IL 62901

04 November, 2021

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See Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, at SIU! Piper Kerman is a social justice advocate and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison. This eye-opening memoir recounts the year that Piper spent in federal prison for a crime she had committed ten years previously during a brief involvement with the drug trade. Compelling, moving, and often hilarious, Orange is the New Black explores issues of friendship and family, mental illness, the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailor, and the almost complete lack of guidance our society offers for post-prison life. The book inspired the Peabody Award-winning, critically acclaimed Netflix series of the same name, and has been credited with radically increasing the public’s awareness about mass incarceration and the growing female prison population. Kerman speaks to audiences around the country, including the American Correctional Association’s Disproportionate Minority Confinement Task Force, federal probation officers, public defenders, justice reform advocates and volunteers, and formerly and currently incarcerated people. She serves on the board of the Women’s Prison Association and the advisory boards of the PEN America Writing For Justice Fellowship, InsideOUT Writers, Healing Broken Circles, and JustLeadershipUSA, and has spoken at the White House and testified before the US Senate. She speaks about learning from mistakes, the power of women’s communities, the need for prison reform and support for people after incarceration, her life and experiences, and the TV series. http://www.lyceumagency.com/speakers/piper-kerman/ This event is part of the Elmer H. Johnson Criminology and Criminal Justice Lecture Series. Piper Kerman at SIU sponsored by: Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Justice and Public Safety, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, and the Student Programming Council.