Kaia Stern

Kaia Stern is the cofounder of the Prison Studies Project, which began at Harvard University in 2008. She is currently faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of Justice Initiatives at the Public Works Alliance. Kaia is the recipient of the 2018-2019 Radcliffe Fellowship and was the first Practitioner in Residence at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute where she led the Law, Education, and Justice focus area. From Sing Sing prison to The White House, her work is grounded in reimagining justice. She has taught extensively on liberation theology, ethics, and transformative justice, and is the author of Voices from American Prisons: Faith, Education, and Healing (Routledge, 2014). Kaia serves as a consultant to educational communities across the nation. She received her master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School and her PhD from Emory University. She is ordained as an interfaith minister and has been learning/teaching in and about U.S. jails and prisons for 30 years.