NDPEP (Programs for Education in Prison) is an initiative housed under the The Center for Social Concerns. The Center is the home of justice work on campus. We bring students, faculty, and communities together for interdisciplinary research on questions of labor, mass incarceration, migration, poverty, and technology. One of the ways we engage both the University and the local community is by gathering for ongoing, critical conversations. Under the NDPEP umbrella are collaborations with the Moreau College Initiative (MCI), a program sponsored by Holy Cross College, and the Women’s College Partnership (WCP), in collaboration with Marian University and the Bard Prison Initiative.My role supports returning citizens from these programs by providing career development and life skills workshops as they prepare to re-enter society in the northern Indiana region.