Amie Dowling is an Associate Professor in the Performing Arts Department at University of San Francisco where she co-teaches the Performing Arts and Community Exchange class (PACE). As an outside member of the Artistic Ensemble she collaborates with artists/activists incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison (CA). Amie has offered performance workshops in Ludlow Correctional Facility (MA), Hampshire County Jail (MA), and in the Saxony Judicial System (Dresden, Germany). She is the director of Separate Sentence and Well Contested Sites, two dance/theater films which explore the experience of incarceration and its impact on family members and communities.
Reginold P. Daniels
Reginold P. Daniels is an author, performer, community activist, and social justice practitioner. His research focuses on critical pedagogy and transformative teaching; he views education as a means of liberation. Reggie’s performances include the play ManAlive and the films Well Contested Sites and Separate Sentence. He is a contributing author to the anthology Today I Gave Myself Permission to Dream: Race and Incarceration in America and his work has been featured on KQED’s Perspectives. Reggie teaches in the Performing Arts and Social Justice program and the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, both at the University of San Francisco. An alumnus of USF and a current EdD. candidate in the USF School of Education, he views the performing arts as an instrument of social justice.