Michelle Daniel
Board Member
Author and PhD Candidate
Michelle Daniel is a doctoral student in the American Studies program at NYU. While incarcerated, Michelle published and presented her research findings to dispel notions of about the reach and intellectual capacity of justice-involved women. She also presented legislative testimony on a reentry alternative she created for long-term incarcerated people that was approved by the Indiana State Interim Committee on the Criminal Code. She is chair of the board of Constructing Our Future, a reentry alternative for women created by incarcerated women in Indiana, and a 2017-18 Research Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, a 2018-19 Ford Foundation Bearing Witness Fellow with Art for Justice, a 2019 SOZE Right of Return Fellow, a 2019 Code for America Fellow and 2019-2020 Mural Arts Fellow.
CANY Board Members
Reverend Stephen H. Phelps
William Snipes
Rich Foudy
Kenneth Henderson
Wesley Caines
Martha King
Jessica Charles, PhD
Michelle Daniels
Arti Finn
Jay Wardle
