MEET THE STAFF
Kelly Brotzman (she/her) is the Executive Director of Prison Book Program. Kelly’s passion for supporting people in prison comes from her experiences teaching college classes in prisons and volunteering with incarcerated students.
Prior to joining PBP, Kelly spent 20 years in higher education, leading offices and programs dedicated to service learning and teaching classes about social justice, poverty, and inequality. Kelly has a PhD in ethics from the University of Chicago. In her free time, she likes looking at contemporary art and antiques and being outside, preferably with dogs.
Email Kelly
617.529.3442
Charlie King (he/him) is PBP’s Program Coordinator. He facilitates volunteer sessions, oversees scheduling, and manages our book inventory. When not working, he loves to cook and spent several years perfecting his brownie recipe. He is, of course, an avid reader whose favorite authors include: Mary Shelley, James Joyce, Ishmael Reed, Thomas Pynchon and Alan Moore.
Charlie is a former community radio station manager and librarian who began volunteering at Prison Book Program in 2023.
Email Charlie
213.290.6944
VOLUNTEER STAFF
Michael Wood (he/him) is Director of Institutional Relations at Prison Book Program. He is the main liaison between PBP and prison and jail officials, and for this reason, he is also the primary editor of our restrictions database, which helps us keep track of what can and cannot be sent to individual facilities. Mike also provides expedited processing for requests from people incarcerated in New England.
Mike jokes that he is a full-time volunteer, having served over 8,000 hours with PBP since starting in 2017. He also enjoys volunteering at the American Red Cross and Common Art at Common Cathedral. Previously, Mike was mechanic, machinist and HVAC designer and engineer.
Email Mike
617.423.3298
Calvin Arey (he/him) directs the Albert Woodfox Memorial Mini-Freedom Libraries (AWMMFL), a fiscally sponsored project of Prison Book Program. Calvin spent several years incarcerated in Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1960’s and 1970’s. He is the only surviving lead plaintiff from the landmark prisoners’ rights case Landman v. Royster, which de-segregated Virginia’s prison system, established basic due process rights for incarcerated people, and put an end, among other things, to bread and water diets for people in solitary confinement.
Calvin’s history-making life and his freedom libraries have been chronicled in Richmond Magazine.
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Email Calvin
617.593.7339
