PEAC Internship Hour Log
President – Britney Keller
October 26, 2013
Date
2-2-12
Hours Logged
2 hours
Activity
General Meeting
3-3-12
2 hours
Meeting with Nathan Bollig
(president), Sherry RankinsRobertson, and Corri Wells
about officer positions
4-2-12
1 hour
Officer Meeting
5-8-12
3 hours
Researching fundraising
options
Details/Reflection
I was a newly appointed VP, so
this meeting was to join everyone
and get to know each other. We
made it potluck style, which was
a lot of fun. It was nice getting
familiar with my club members
and just relaxing together. When
I sent out the email for this
meeting, I used the term PEN in
the subject line, and PEAC in the
body. The former adviser told me
that this was a definite no-no, so
that was a learning experience.
I was approached with the offer
to be an officer for PEAC. I was
nervous about the idea of
jumping into a leadership role for
a club that I had not been
involved in for very long, but
Nathan, Amy, and Laura ensured
me that they would support me
every step of the way. This was
the first time I had met Laura, so I
was surprised that she already
wanted to be the president. It
was a good meeting, though.
Nathan is very patient so that
was nice, considering I was still
pretty new to being an officer.
During this meeting, we all were
trying to decide on a new logo for
the shirts, and discussed the
paperwork involved in passing
over the officer responsibilities to
new officers.
When I began in PEAC, I started
as the VP of Action. Therefore, it
was my job to determine how we
might find ways to raise more
money for the club. I spent some
time looking over ASU’s website,
Summer
2012
1 hour
Officer meeting with Laura
Smith (new president), Scott
O’Connell (vice president) Corri
Wells about t-shirts, logo,
conference, etc.
7-19-12
1.5 hours
Officer Meeting
and even went through some old
USG packets with my roommate
who was President of PAB on
Tempe campus. We sat in her
office for quite a while because
there were a bunch of
documents from years past, but
not a lot of recent ones. She
helped me figure out some great
opportunities, but they would
require a lot more volunteers
than we currently had in the club.
These opportunities included
stadium clean up and doing
concessions at basketball and
football games. I was in charge of
concessions for football games
when I was in student council in
high school, so I thought this
would be a great idea for us.
It was interesting to transition
from Nathan, who was very laid
back about the club, to Laura,
who wanted to accomplish things
immediately. We went over
ways to create a new logo and
began talking about the Prison
Education Conference.
An officer meeting was held with
Corri, Laura, Scott, and myself.
Because I held the title of VP of
Communication, I was designated
the tasks of putting meeting
minutes up on Orgsync for
members to view, as well as
emailing members for
participation in Homecoming
events such as a “Game Day
Grant” tailgate, Stadium Cleanup, and MU window painting. We
also spoke about bridging the gap
between PEAC/English
Department with Justice Studies,
t-shirt quotes and designs,
speakers for the March ’12 Prison
Education Conference, and
reaching out to other ASU
campuses. This meeting was all
8-20-12 – 825-12
2 hours
Logo
8-28-12
1 hour
General Meeting
about getting a step ahead so
that we can still plan our
conference, but meanwhile
attempt to expand our reach
throughout the ASU campuses,
and spread our name around the
Tempe campus during
Homecoming. This was an
exciting meeting because we had
so many opportunities to get
involved with the events
happening on campus.
This was a very long process! We
had one of our members ask her
talented friend, James Choe, to
design a logo for us (our current
one). I was in charge of
communicating and being the
middleman between him and the
rest of the officers. Because
Corri’s husband is an expert in
design, we had him look over it
several times, so it was a backand-forth process for a few days.
James and Corri’s husband
perfected it eventually, and we
printed it on the shirts. I met up
with James and gave him one of
the shirts and had him sign some
documents that gave us
permission to use his work.
This general meeting was the first
of the semester, so Laura began
by introducing all of the officers.
We wished to add more VP’s to
the club so that we could divide
tasks and be more efficient, so
we also asked if anyone would be
interested in signing up to be an
officer. We distributed handouts
about joining PEAC and assisting
us in our goals, as well as
information about related
courses and internships and the
purpose of PEAC. We also used
this opportunity to vote on the tshirt designs, so that everyone in
the club would enjoy wearing
10-9-12
1.5 hours
Officer Meeting
11-6-12
30 min
Winter budget request
11-11-12
30 min
Creating photo release form
11-29-12
2 hours
General Meeting
them and be proud to do so. We
also went over our budget and
conversed about inviting Alan
Elsner to speak at the
conference.
During this meeting, Corri, Laura,
Scott and I discussed details of
the conference, the PEAC
webpage, our upcoming vendor
on Hayden Lawn, Homecoming
events, and various other small
items. This meeting was a bit
stressful because Homecoming
was quickly approaching, but it is
difficult to get involved in such a
big event when there are very
few members in a club. We were
still in the process of planning the
Prison Education Conference, so
it was hard to manage several
tasks between three officers.
Soon after this meeting we
ultimately decided to opt out of
participating in Homecoming
events this year.
For this budget we requested
money for food for meetings,
flyers, apparel, and gifts for
conference speakers. I was
hoping for a good amount of
money for gifts for speakers so
that we could ensure they would
be really nice. However, we
didn’t receive funds for this item,
so we had to find the money for
speaker gifts elsewhere.
To create a photo release form
for an upcoming meeting, I
researched the best formatting
and most appropriate content for
our purposes. I did not have a
solid sample to work from, so I
was a bit nervous that it would
not be what we needed. In the
end, however, it seemed to go
over well.
This meeting was very successful
because rather than just
12-3-12
1 hour
Email Group Creation
12-6-12
2 hours
Officer Meeting
discussing ideas, we
accomplished tasks. Scott
stepped down from an officer
position, so we signed up two
more VP’s, Gloria and Annette. It
is always fun to work with new
people that are passionate about
the goals of PEAC. We received tshirts, locked in a vendor spot,
and planned a holiday party. We
also decided that we would hold
a weekly meeting so that we
could easily follow up with each
other when we were all on
campus at the same time. It was
great to add two great people to
the club because even small
things like creating a flyer are
very helpful and gives other
officers the opportunity to
complete other tasks.
This is a task that should not have
taken very long, but took me
what seemed like forever. Laura
assigned me the task of creating
an email list of every member in
PEAC because she did not like
using OrgSync. I tried to export
the list from OrgSync, but for
some reason everything got
jumbled and it was next to
impossible to sort them out. I
ended up manually putting
emails into a group in my Outlook
email program. There were a lot
of names, so I’m sure I will find a
way in the future to better
accomplish this task.
This meeting was spent
discussing the logistics of the
conference. We discussed the
many different ways we could
possibly receive funding from
different colleges and/or
organizations, the menu, and the
schedule of events. This was a bit
of a stressful meeting because it
was all about the numbers of the
12-6-12
30 min
Finding contact/bank account
information
12-11-12
1 hour
Officer Meeting
conference, which is the most
nerve-wracking part. What if we
don’t have enough money? What
if we don’t have enough support?
We split up the duties, which
mostly consisted of contacting
certain departments and orgs.
This relieved some stress off of
each us so that one person was
not responsible for contacting a
long list of possible resources.
Laura asked me to create a
document that had all of
President Crow’s information on
it, as well as his staff’s. She also
requested that I find information
on how we open up a bank
account, so I grabbed one of the
packets that my roommate had
given me from our research for
fundraising and found some info
on that.
This meeting was also dedicated
to the conference, but this time
we had solid information. We
planned a meeting with Maureen
Goggin to see if she would be
willing to fund a small amount of
our budget for the conference,
solidified two speakers on the
schedule, decided on a menu,
and threw around some more
funding ideas. It felt great to end
the last meeting of the semester
on such a high note. We were all
excited for the spring semester to
start so that we could solidify
more conference plans. This was
one of the last meeting that
Gloria and Annette attended,
however, so although I’m not
sure if it was too stressful for
them, or if they believed we were
focusing too much on the
conference and not enough on
other tasks. Even so, they helped
a great deal, and we were
grateful for their contributions
12-17-12
1 hour
Emailing/Ordering/Confirming
for t-shirts
1-9-13
1 hour
Meeting with Maureen Goggin
2-20-13
30 min
Creating blurb for State Press
2-20-13
2 hours
Coffee Mixer
during the time they were
involved with PEAC.
I was in charge of conversing with
Anton Sport to order our t-shirts.
They ended up looking really
great. It is always a long process
when trying to place an order
when there are several people
that need to confirm the design
and price, but worth it in the end.
Corri, Laura and I met with
Maureen Goggin about the
conference. She was very
impressed with everything we
had accomplished in such a short
amount of time, which was great!
She agreed to give us $1500, so
we were all relieved that we had
some more financial backing. It
was a great meeting, and it was
encouraging to know that she
had so much faith in our club.
Laura gave me the task of
creating a blurb for the State
Press that would advertise our
coffee mixer, conference, and
hopefully recruit new members
to the club. She could be a bit
picky when it came to things such
as this, so we worked on it for a
bit until it was perfect. I
appreciated her guidance, and
was excited for the coffee mixer
to see if the ad would work and
bring in some students.
We held a coffee mixer so that
anyone interested could stop in
and chat with us about the club
and conference. A few people
stopped in and gave us their info.
When there weren’t others in the
room, we had the opportunity to
take care of business matters. I
like get-togethers like this
because we have the opportunity
to accomplish some lingering
tasks for the club, but it is relaxed
with no pressure. It was also
2-27-13
30 min
Phone conference to discuss
tabling
2-29-13
3 hours
Tabling at MU
3-7-13
1 hour
Officer Meeting
3-19-13
2 hours
Drafting a script
“snowing” that day on campus,
so that added some excitement
to the event!
We talked on the phone about
the labels and water bottles for
tabling in a few days. Jess was in
charge of getting the labels done,
and I would drive to campus so
that we both could go to the
store to pick up some water
bottles to tape them on.
Jess and I advertised PEAC and
handed out water bottles. The
water was a hit because it was a
warm day, so hopefully they took
the time to read the label. We
had a few very interested
students stop by. Carrying the
water and supplies wasn’t the
most fun or easy thing to do, but
it was a stressful day for me so
this was a nice and relaxing thing
to do with my teammate.
For this meeting, we wanted to
tie up some loose ends for the
conference. We talked about
things such as transportation for
speakers, flyers, dinner after the
conference, who we would be
giving t-shirts to, and final budget
numbers. The conference was
quickly approaching, so we were
all a bit frazzled at this point.
Although I was excited for the
conference, I couldn’t wait for it
to be over so that we could all
get a break.
On this day I met with Corri to
help me with my script for the
conference. I appreciated her
very much for giving me her
insight on this. I had a rough draft
to work from, but she gave me a
lot of information about the
speakers so that I may be better
educated. It was nice that we had
some PEAC officers and
volunteers who would introduce
3-20-13
30 min
Email Correspondence
3-22-13
2 hours
Officer Meeting
the speakers so that the talking
would be dispersed between
everyone. I did have quite a long
introduction in the beginning
about the early days of PEAC, so
it was fun to reminisce with Corri
about that. After getting her help
with the script, a lot of my nerves
were relieved. It is also nice being
able to speak your writing rather
than have others read it, so that
you don’t have to worry about
grammar! That shaved off a lot of
worry.
This was a very stressful, nervewracking, and disappointing day.
Corri, Laura, Jess and I spent a
long time updating each other on
what was done and what needed
to be done. Laura scolded me
because I wanted to focus on my
already assigned tasks for the
conference rather than make a
drive from my home in Glendale
to Tempe to have a meeting
about a webpage that was not an
important aspect of the
conference. After working so
hard, practically being her
secretary, and sacrificing a lot of
my time for this event, I was
shocked that one missed,
unnecessary meeting would
conjure up so much hate. Awful
as it was, I learned a lot, which is
all I could ask for.
Tense does not begin to describe
the air between everyone in the
club and the president. It is not
fun or efficient to work in an
environment like this, so we
decided to let it go, put a smile
on, and get through this
conference with heads held high.
We’ve worked much too hard to
let this get in the way. During this
meeting we talked about the
finalized logo, pick up of the t-
3-26-13
2 hours
Last meeting before Prison
Education Conference
3-28-13
3 hours
Preparing for Prison Education
Conference
shirts, finalized transportation of
speakers, materials for speakers,
when we would meet at
University Club the day of the
conference, details of the civil
dialogue, photography and
filming of the event, dress code
for officers, parking, next
meetings, and a few other
various items. Phew!
The purpose of this meeting was
to finalize plans for the
conference, such as who has
which duties and what left there
is to do. It was nice to all be able
to be on the same page and walk
through the conference together
so that we were prepared for
anything. It was a bit difficult
because communication within
the group had become strained,
but those of us who were still
working together were able to
team up even more successfully
than before. It is never good to
lose a member of a group, but we
made it into an experience that
made our group stronger. Even
with all the stress this situation
put on us, we were able to put it
aside and work on making this
conference the best one yet.
I made a script for myself for the
Prison Education Conference
because I would be emceeing the
event. I was so nervous! I am
generally a quiet person, so I was
more nervous than excited to be
the host for the day. I wrote and
re-wrote my words several times,
but eventually I was confident
with the script I had written. I
have made several speeches
throughout my academic career
for leadership positions and class
assignments, but I have not had
experience being the emcee for a
whole day! I was interested to
3-29-13
12 hours
Prison Education Conference
4-20-13
1 hour
Meeting before dinner
4-27-13
2 hours
Phone Conference
see how I would perform in the
end!
We held the Prison Education
Conference, which I emceed. It
was amazing! I was nervous the
whole day because I was wary
about speaking, but I learned a
lot from the experience. The
speakers, handouts, food, guests,
and all of our volunteers were
awesome. The dinner we had
afterwards with our speakers and
related professors was so much
fun. Opportunities like these are
some that I will never forget.
Corri, Jess and I met before we
went to dinner together. The
meeting was mostly just getting
organized and ensuring we had
certain paperwork. It is always
fun to be around Corri and Jess,
and it was great that we could
get a lot accomplished before
going on a non-business related
dinner.
Corri, Jess and I spoke on the
phone about revising the
constitution and other items we
would talk about for our
upcoming meeting. The biggest
stress was making sure that we
would have enough members
there to be able to officially vote
in a new constitution. Prior to the
call, I spent some time editing the
constitution and ridding of
obviously “power-hungry”
statements, and then sent it to
Corri and Jess to look over. We all
easily agreed on changes, so that
was a relief. We were nervous
that our former president would
come to the meeting and oppose
the revisions, but we hoped that
we would have enough positive
members there to outvote any
opposition.
5-1-13
1 hour
Meeting to revise constitution,
vote new officers, discuss
summer funding
5-1-13
1 hour
Credit Union
5-12-13
30 min
Budget for summer
6-5-13
1 hour
Phone Conference
During this meeting we voted me
in as the official new president,
Jess as VP of Communications,
and Tina as VP of Finance. We
also discussed and voted on the
budget. It was a great meeting
because we all felt a sense of
relief to vote new officers in and
start fresh. I was really looking
forward to the semester.
Corri, Jess and I went to the
Arizona Credit Union on campus
in the MU to open an account for
PEAC. We carry debit cards so
that we can easily purchase
things needed, such as water
bottles. It is much, much easier
to have a card to spend money
that we have earned. It saves
valuable time that we could use
to be accomplishing other tasks.
I submitted the budget for
summer, which included requests
for money for food for meetings,
a tablecloth with our logo on it,
water bottles for tabling, food for
meetings, and t-shirts. I was
hopeful that we would get a good
amount for the tablecloth and
apparel, in particular, because
they are great ways of
advertising the club and make us
look sharp.
Corri, Jess and I discussed a few
items that we needed to get
rolling for fall, such as budget,
what materials we needed for
the semester, getting our vendor
set up, and speakers for the next
conference. With our new and
improved logo on hand, we
decided that more t-shirts and a
tablecloth for events were musthaves. Because Jess was the
officer mostly in charge of
finances at the time, we
employed her to ask Renee if we
could somehow combine our
30 min
Budget
1 hour
Researching speakers/ideas for
Prison Education Conference
7-3-13
7-3-13
entire budget to spend only on
these two items. I took the task
of contacting Eric Kessler, who
was our vendor the past year. I
needed to let him know that I
was now the president and
person of contact, and ask if he
was still interested in working
with our organization. We also
began brainstorming about who
we would want to invite to speak
at the next Prison Education
Conference. Corri mentioned
Professor Keith Miller, but we
decided that we would first
research other speakers before
contacting him.
I completed our budget with the
requirements and restrictions of
the USG Appropriations Packet in
mind. Due to the fact that we
would not need much marketing
materials and no conference
money until the next semester, I
requested funds for catering for
general meetings with other
PEAC members, t-shirts, and a
small amount for marketing
materials so that we may get the
word out about our meetings.
Our club draws an immense
amount of curiosity, but few are
willing to break out of their
comfort zones and join our quest
for supporting prison education.
Due to this lack of action, I
thought it important to have
materials to advertise our
organization, dates, and purposes
of our meetings.
Before an upcoming phone
meeting, I wanted to get some
research under my belt in regards
to who would be good
candidates to ask to be speakers
at the conference. I stumbled
across the website for Arizona
Association for Lifelong Learning,
7-9-13
1 hour
Phone Conference
6 hours
Reading Marshall Frank’s
Criminal Injustice in America:
Essays By A Career Cop
1 hour
Email to Marshall Frank
7-20-13
through 725-13
8-15-13
which I thought would be a great
resource. I also found some
affiliates of theirs: Arizona
Education Network, Mountain
Plains Adult Education
Association, and Commission on
Adult Basic Education. Perhaps
these would be good contacts.
During this phone call, we
decided to contact Marshall
Frank as a potential speaker, and
tried to solidify a date for the
conference. I think this was the
most stressful stage of planning
the conference because it was a
lot of “what ifs.” I wanted to read
as much about Mr. Frank as I
could so that I would be
educated before asking him to
grant us such a huge honor as to
speak at our conference.
Before contacting author and excop Marshall Frank to be a
speaker at the Prison Education
Conference, I wanted to read one
of his works so that I had a better
idea of who he was and what he
stands for. I found his book
refreshing in the way that he
writes what he truly believes
without a fear of the critiques he
might receive about his thoughts
on controversial subjects. This
book took me awhile to read
because I wanted to go back and
re-read some parts that I thought
were important, such as
(obviously), his thoughts on
education in prisons. By reading
his book before contacting I was
also able to reference some of his
thoughts that support our goals
when I did email him, so I think
this gave us a bit more credibility.
PEAC and myself were honored
when he accepted our invitation
to speak.
It took me a while to draft an
8-18-13
1 hour
Email to Sean Pica
8-20-13
2 hours
Phone Conference
8-20-13
30 min
Paperwork for vendor
email to Marshall Frank, due to
the fact that I wanted it to be
flawless. Of course, I sought
revision from Corri and Jess. I
added a quote from his book that
really sums up the goals of PEAC,
“Many leave prison angry and
most likely to return one day
because they have not been
schooled, rehabilitated, treated,
trained, inspired or instilled with
a sense of self-worth” (XII The
Business of Prisons). I hoped that
this would provide him with
encouragement that we are all
on the same page and would be
honored to have him as a guest. I
was anxious to get a response!
Although I had the base of the
email written out from my
previous email to Mr. Frank, I
took the time to watch Mr. Pica’s
videos on his website for a
second time and research his
mission a bit further before
completing the email. As before, I
was very anxious for his reply.
Corri, Jess and I were all under a
lot of stress because it was the
start of the semester and the
prime time to accomplish tasks
for the conference. We talked
about the acceptance by
Marshall Frank to speak at the
event, documents for our vendor,
meeting with Dr. Mark Lussier,
estimates for the University Club,
and other various items. It was a
very hectic phone call – we each
had a lot to accomplish.
A very kind and helpful vendor
has been helping us out with
raising money for our
conference. I was glad to accept
the task of communicating with
him to see if he would like to
work with us again, and soon
after begin our paperwork for the
8-21-13
4 hours
Passport to ASU
9-9-13
2 hours
Phone meeting about
conference budget and
meeting with Dr. Lussier
9-11-13
1 hour
Meeting with Dr. Mark Lussier
9-11-13
3 hours
General meeting
9-30-13
1 hour
Researching ideas for PEAC
club involvement
sales. It was a bit of a long
process, but a simple one.
Jess, Tina, Eric and I advertised
PEAC at Passport to ASU. This
was the first time we had met
Eric, who was very interested in
becoming involved with the club.
He is very eager to help our
cause, so it is so nice to have him
on our team. We had a lot of
students sign up for our email
list, so it was a successful day all
in all.
We met on the phone to plan out
what we would talk to Dr. Lussier
about. We made the calculations
for our budget we have so far,
what we plan to have after
fundraising, how much lodging
and airfare will cost, etc. It was a
long process but it felt good to be
prepared.
Corri, Jess and I met with Dr.
Lussier about the conference. He
was gracious enough to give us
$3000 for our budget! I was very
nervous because it is a daunting
thing to ask someone for money,
no matter what situation it is. All
in all, it went really well and Dr.
Lussier is a very kind man.
Tina, Jess and I went to catering
and brought food back to LL for
our meeting. The meeting went
pretty well, we don’t have a large
quantity of members but I do
think we have quality – which is
more important. They suggested
visiting prisons and making a
documentary with students
around campus about prison
education. Hopefully we can find
a way to incorporate these ideas
into the club.
1. Movies approved and
recommended to be
shown in prisons – how
are these films
educational/beneficial
for inmates? What other
movies would be more
effective?
2. Producing a short video
with interviews from
students around campus
– what do you think
about education in
prisons?
3. Roundtable Discussion –
what is most important
to be taught in prisons?
Reading and math?
Parenting and
community involvement?
4. Educating each other –
how do we react when
someone opposes our
goals/beliefs? Do we try
to persuade? What are
our roles as prison
education advocates?
10-4-13
1 hour
10-10-13
1 hour
Officer Phone Conference
During this phone meeting, we
discussed the next PEAC group
meeting and details about the
conference. We decided that our
next general meeting would be
focused around two of our
members who have had
experience in prison - one as an
inmate and the other as an
intern. Prison is something that is
almost unimaginable for some
people, and those who think they
may understand it have no idea
how it really works (or doesn’t).
Therefore, I believe that hearing
from fellow students who have
had experiences in these places
will make the idea of prison so
much closer to home, and
because of this, make our efforts
more effective.
Emails to Tina, Corri, Jess about Because Tina has not planned a
reserving food and rooms for
lot with us, I wanted to give her
next meeting
10-11-13
1 hour
Researching ideas for round
table discussion for conference
the opportunity to get some
practice in doing some of the
basic things that we do for
meetings. Therefore, I assigned
her to order the catering for
What is the connection
between the Department of
Correction and the
Department of Education in
Arizona (or other states)?
Should it be stronger? What
are their weakest points? Is
the bridge between them too
narrow or too wide?
The Arizona Department of
Corrections Education
Program offers: Functional
Literacy Program, GED
Preparation Program, WorkBased Education, Special
Education, Resource Centers
which provide materials to
support academic and
personal development
programs – are they
working? Are they enough?
If having scored under an 8th
grade level, inmates are
required to enroll in a
“Functional Literacy
Program.” Should they be
required to get a GED? Or at
least strongly encouraged?
Why do we use the 8th grade
as a median?
10-31-13
30 min
Email to School of
Transformation contacts
Thanks to Dr. Lussier, we are
beginning to bridge the gap
between PEAC and other
departments/colleges within
ASU besides the Dept. of
English. Due to the fact that
prison education is a topic
that many kinds of students
can relate to and be
11-4-13
4 hours
General Meeting
passionate about, we have
made it a goal to reach
beyond English and include
any other departments that
wish to be involved. I emailed
Professor Gomez, Professor
Durfee, and Professor Lopez,
who are all professors in the
School of Social
Transformation, and invited
them and any of their
interested students to our
meeting on November 4. I
am so pleased that this move
is finally being made. In the
past we have tried to make a
connection to other colleges,
but have been overwhelmed
with other responsibilities.
Now that we finally have this
opportunity, I am hoping that
it will go smoothly and that
all parties involved will
benefit tremendously.
During this meeting, VP of
Finance Tina Cai and member
Eric Verska shared stories of
their experiences with the
prison education system. This
was our best meeting yet, in
my opinion, because it was
the most educational and
personal. It is much more
effective to learn something
about prison education from
people who have had firsthand experience. Tina and
Eric were great and I learned
a lot from them that day. I
hope that more students
with experience with prison
education will join PEAC in
the future so that those who
do not attend the conference
but do attend general
meetings will have the
opportunity to learn such
interesting facts and listen to
amazing stories.
11-6-13
1 hour
Brainstorming for book
drive/email correspondence
11-12-13
2 hours
Correspondence with another
ASU organization/ research on
gender issues in prisons
During our last general
meeting, we decided that a
book drive would be a great
idea as our last big effort for
the semester. We are hoping
that this will get the whole
university involved, and
therefore spread awareness
about prison education. I
emailed the other officers
and inquired whether we
might want to get in touch
with bookstores around the
Tempe area, in hopes that
they might donate some
books to our drive. We also
talked about how we would
acquire boxes to put the
books in, and how we would
get them to Tina when she
takes them to Florence to
teach at the prison. I looked
through my own books and
gathered up about 10 books
that I want to contribute to
the drive.
Today I was forwarded an
email by the president of the
“genderwhat?!” student
organization at ASU. They
wanted to unite with us
because of the fact that
gender equality is an issue
everywhere in the world,
including in prisons. I asked
our advisor about her
opinion on collaboration with
the organization, and we
agreed that right now is not a
good time to begin a new
project with a club that we
11-12-13
30 min
Correspondence with vendor
are not all that familiar with.
She did give the name of one
of her students to the club so
that they may begin a project
that way, but we agreed that
the officers are too
preoccupied with securing
more conference details and
wrapping up the semester to
take on another task right at
this time. After this, I was
curious as to the actual
stories of gender inequality in
prisons, and found many
interesting facts about the
lack of hormone treatment
behind bars after sex
changes, and the many
lawsuits that have been
issued because of this. It is a
seldom explored, yet very
interesting issue.
Due to the fact that no one
was available to get the
check from our vendor while
he was on campus, I emailed
him to inquire if he had sent
it elsewhere. Before I did
this, I searched through my
emails to make sure that he
had not already told me his
plan for this, although I was
99.9% certain that he hadn’t.
He asked me about dates for
next semester, so I am
hoping that my fellow
officers will transition
smoothly into their new roles
after the semester is over. It
is a bit difficult to be the
main means of
communication between
vendors and other contacts,
as I will have to pass down
the torch in less than a
month.
11-24-13
1 hour
Phone Conference
12-5-13
1 hour
Tying up loose ends
During this phone
conference, Corri, Jess and I
discussed altering the
schedule of the conference
so that we can have time for
Michelle Robeiro to speak.
Because she is the backbone
of the Pen Project, we feel it
is imperative that she be a
major player in the
conference every year. We
also discussed acquiring hotel
rooms for our speakers, and
other various details about
the conference. It feels great
that we are 90% done with
the process of pulling this
conference off. Although I
will not be an ASU student
next semester, I hope that I
will be able to help out,
because once the spring
semester comes, time until
the conference seems to fly!
Although there will still be
small details to speak about
after turning in this log, the
final task I accomplished is to
ensure that my adviser and
fellow officers had materials
they need for when after I
am no longer an ASU
student. Of course I will still
be available whenever
needed or wanted, but I
made sure that they knew
where to get things such as a
blank vendor contract. I
combed through all of my
documents to make sure
they had everything they
might need. It has been a
fantastic semester!