Volunteering in Prisons

In 2019, Chuck Rabaut introduced me to volunteering at gavel clubs, which are Toastmasters Clubs operating in prisons. In 2022, I became the full-time counselor at Out of the Blue Gavel Club at Jefferson Correctional Institution in Monticello, Florida. In addition I teach creative writing at JCI and Madison Correctional Instution in Madison, Florida. Check out publications and links on this page, and contact me if you want more information.

•  Giving to Gavel Clubs 
•  I Listen. I Bring the Pizza 
• Intha Slammer (Children's story)
• Our Sentences
• Monticello News: Out of the Blue Speech Contest, 11-22-23

• Rain Shadow Review
• Iron City Magazine

• PEN America
• What is a Gavel Club?
• The Justice Project 
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Community-powered criminal justice reform

•  JCI’s gaveliers aim to transition and transcend
• The Graybar Hotel
• Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change