{"629492":{"#nid":"629492","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Impact Presents: \u0022College in Prison as a Common Good\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn partnership with the Georgia Social Impact Collaborative (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gasocialimpact.com\/\u0022\u003EGSIC\u003C\/a\u003E) the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship presents a Collaborative Impact talk featuring Common Good founder, Sarah Higinbotham.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Emory\u0026#39;s Oxford College Dr. Higinbotham studies and teaches Shakespeare and early modern literature, focusing on the intersections of literature and law. She writes about the violence of the law in early modern England, critical prison theory, and human rights in literature.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe works with students who are interested in criminal justice reform, facilitates undergraduate peer tutoring in Georgia\u0026rsquo;s prisons, and oversees summer internships.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHiginbotham was a Folger Shakespeare Library Residential Fellow in 2017 researching early modern juries, assize sermons, sentencing rubrics, judges\u0026rsquo; notebooks, and legal records. She studied paleography at the Folger in 2018 and rare book bindings at University of Virginia\u0026rsquo;s Rare Book School in 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile earning a Ph.D. in English, Higinbotham also taught college courses inside a Georgia State Prison. In 2014, she co-founded a nonprofit (Common Good Atlanta) that connects universities with prisons, work that is rooted in the belief that human dignity flourishes and communities become stronger when access to higher education is equitable. Common Good Atlanta offers accredited college courses in three Georgia prisons four days a week. Before joining Emory\u0026#39;s Oxford College as faculty in 2017, Higinbotham taught Shakespeare and Milton at Georgia Tech for three years as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout the Impact Speaker Series:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from \u0026quot;building a venture around intellectual capital\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;successful entrepreneurship in large organizations\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;socially responsible leadership.\u0026quot; The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni, and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders. The lecture series is sponsored by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe series is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us for an inspirational presentation by Sarah Higinbotham.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Impact Presents: \u0022College in Prison as a Common Good\u0022"}],"uid":"35131","created_gmt":"2019-12-02 16:22:12","changed_gmt":"2020-01-16 18:55:11","author":"nanilnath3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-01-22T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-01-22 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-01-22 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-01-22 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629486":{"id":"629486","type":"image","title":"sarah","body":null,"created":"1575302570","gmt_created":"2019-12-02 16:02:50","changed":"1575302570","gmt_changed":"2019-12-02 16:02:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239725","name":"sarah_higinbotham_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sarah_higinbotham_headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sarah_higinbotham_headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":259957,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sarah_higinbotham_headshot.jpg?itok=nzMIPMEC"}}},"media_ids":["629486"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/index.html","title":"ILE Home"},{"url":"https:\/\/gasocialimpact.com\/","title":"Georgia Social Impact Collaborative"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.commongoodatlanta.com\/","title":"Common Good home page"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/centers-initiatives\/ile\/impact\/index.html","title":"Impact Home"}],"groups":[{"id":"1274","name":"Scheller College of Business"},{"id":"477091","name":"Serve-Learn-Sustain"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"168692","name":"Sarah Higinbotham"},{"id":"3532","name":"impact"},{"id":"11914","name":"IMPACT Speaker Series"},{"id":"183539","name":"prison education"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Edori.pap@ile.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}