synergy

Completed

Double Tragedies (2008) - mental illness and the death penalty

Resisting Violence, Imagining Alternatives (2009) - community conversations about different forms of violence

Current

Survey of treatment of transgender people in Texas county jails

A people's history: ADAPT's fight for disability rights in Texas

Seeking respect, living wages, and health care: personal attendants speak out

Human Rights in the Heart of Texas

Planned

Stop shackling pregnant and laboring women inmates in Texas through public education concerning H.B. 3653, a little-advertised 2009 statute limiting (but not entirely banning) the practice

Variable but ongoing: we train and mentor student interns, volunteers and/or students working with us for academic credit or as service learners

Huston-Tillotson University, Austin (interns, criminal justice)
Sam Houston University, Huntsville (using material in class, sociology)
St. Edward's University, Austin (interns, community service, psychology)
St. Mary's University, San Antonio (sociology class, interns)
Texas State University (anthropology interns)
University of the Incarnate Word (academic credit in sociology)
University of Texas at Austin (volunteers; interns; Rapoport Service Scholars; Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP), Human Rights strand and Ethics & Leadership strand; for academic credit or as part of class requirements in anthropology, sociology, rhetoric, Asian American Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women's & Gender Studies)
Williams College, Massachusetts (winter intersession 2009)

and

Anderson High School, Austin (volunteer)
McCallum High School, Austin (volunteer)
Huntington Surrey High School, Austin (volunteer)
United World College, New Mexico (study visit, 2009 and 2010)