C A R O L J A C O B S E N Professor, The University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art &Design, Women & Gender Studies, Law School 2000 Bonisteel Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48109
[email protected] 734 662 0776 P R O F E S S I O N A L R E P R E S E N T A T I O N : Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery Amnesty International, Co-Sponsor of Solo Exhibits, Screenings 529 W. 20th St. 5 Penn Plaza New York, NY 10011 New York, NY 10001 212 647 7030 C R E A T I V E P R A C T I C E A N D R E S E A R C H : 1989-present Women’s De/Criminalization, Justice & Human Rights Social Documentary films, photography, installations, critical writings, and political organizing for incarcerated women’s freedom from life sentences, decriminalization and human rights/against solitary confinement. 2019 For Dear Life: Women’s Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus University of Michigan Press, national award-winning non-profit book with essays By the author and by legal and cultural scholars with critical writings and narrations by 52 incarcerated women Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project (501(c)3) www.umich.edu/~clemency Founding director, nonprofit grassroots organization for advocacy, public education, policy work, and freedom for women wrongfully convicted and incarcerated in Michigan, and for human rights and alternatives to all women’s incarceration. 1984-present Feminism, Art & Censorship Social documentary films, photography, installations, critical writings, advocacy for artistic freedom.