Advisory Board
 

PBP’s Advisory Board is composed of people with the diverse skills and experience relevant to our program -- people who can help guide our future as we continue to bridge the gap between the shamefully inadequate education system of our prisons and the needs of those incarcerated.  Members periodically give advice on specific topics such as our programs, outreach, development, fundraising, relationships with prisons and more. 

Members

Nancy Cline – Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College

Ms. Cline oversees the operations of ten major libraries and the various departments within the Harvard College Library.  Prior to her appointment at Harvard, Ms. Cline served as the Dean of University Libraries at Pennsylvania State University from 1988-1996, where she was the chief administrative and academic officer for libraries at University Park and twenty other campuses. Ms. Cline has been an active participant throughout her career in national and international dialogues regarding research libraries, including IFLA (the International Federation of Library Associations).  During her tenure at Harvard, she has overseen the comprehensive renovation of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, increased support for collections preservation, and participated in the development of Harvard’s Digital Library Initiative and its Open Collections Program

Hampton Howard – New Hampshire Public Defender

Mr. Howard was an author, and became a New Hampshire public defender.  In that capacity, I have tried cases ranging from DUI to first-degree murder, and spent almost fifteen years in and out of courts, jails, and prisons.

Andrea Kelton-Harris -- Senior Human Resources Consultant, Harvard University,

 First Lady, Zion Union Church

Trained as lawyer, Ms. Kelton-Harris works in human resources for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.  Before she came to Harvard she worked in health care administration.  Ms. Kelton-Harris works with academic and administrative departments in hiring, organization, labor relations and development.  She is the chief FAS officer for staff diversity. With her husband, she leads the Zion Union Church, a large Baptist congregation, in Hyannis.  She organizes youth groups at the church.

Randall Kennedy - Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Professor Kennedy focuses his research on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life. He supervises written work and accepts press inquiries regarding the topics of contracts, freedom of expression, race relations law, civil rights legislation, and the Supreme Court. His books include: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption; The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word; Race, Crime, and the Law . Additionally, Kennedy has published numerous collections of shorter works. Many of his articles can be found in periodicals and newspapers such as: The American Prospect, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard BlackLetter Journal, and The Boston Globe. Professor Kennedy received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Yale University. A Rhodes Scholar, he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Carl McDonald - Director of Boston Urban Outreach, City Mission Society of Boston

For 20 years, Carl has planned service opportunities for teens and adult groups.  He had led workshops and retreats all across New England and the U.S.  Carl’s partnership with Prison Book Program has been instrumental in planning and executing an annual community book drive, which in the past two years has collected over 40,000 books.  Carl has a Masters of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological Seminary.

David Murphy - President & Chief Executive Officer, Better World Books

Better World Books is a global bookstore that harnesses the power of capitalism to bring literacy and opportunity to people around the world.  An award-winning social entrepreneurship venture, Better World Books benefits a number of literacy charities around the world, including PBP.  PBP has earned over $30,000 to date in book sales commissions through BWB, and the organizations have collaborated for the last three years on large community book drive events in Boston.  

Bruce Western - Professor of Sociology and Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Western's work has focused on the role of incarceration in social and economic inequality in American society. He shows the link between incarceration and unemployment, with consequent inequality. Western's first book, Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies (Princeton University Press, 1997) concerned the growth and decline of unions in capitalist democracies.  In his second book, Punishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006), Western asks what role incarceration plays in the increasing class stratification of American society. He shows that the elevated numbers of incarcerated African Americans in the 1990's created a rift in African American society: those with poor educational backgrounds are increasingly separated from those who attain better educations. Western received his B.A. in government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is currently co-chair of a task force on the challenge of mass incarceration for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.