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Director, Prison Studies Project and Adviser to Pathways Home
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 Kaia Stern is Director of the Prison Studies Project and an adviser to Pathways Home at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Her work focuses on transformative justice, human rights and education in prison. Kaia currently teaches in the departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She has also taught at Boston University, Emory University, New York Theological Seminary, and the University of California as well as inside Norfolk, Framingham and Sing Sing prisons. Her contribution to the Norval Morris Project, Vera Institute of Justice, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Kings County District Attorney's Office, Open Society Institute's After Prison Initiative, and Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last sixteen years. She is ordained as an interfaith minister, holds a doctorate in religion from Emory University, and a master's of theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. |