Heath Pearson

Heath Pearson, an Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Georgetown University, explores the intricate relationship between community life and incarceration in Cumberland County, New Jersey. He shares his journey into this research, emphasizing the importance of everyday joy amid confinement. Engaging stories reveal how people resist and build lives alongside prisons. Pearson also addresses the historical context of confinement and imagines alternative futures through creativity and mutual aid, hoping to inspire beauty and solidarity.