In late 2022, Kate Feigin, LCSW and PhD Candidate, a 17 year criminal justice professional, left her post at Mendocino County Jail to become the Director of Unconditional Freedom’s Prison Monastery Program. Kate strongly believes in the need for a new model for incarceration in the United States, and that the Prison Monastery is the most effective system in achieving this goal. The Prison Monastery is our radical concept is to restore the penitentiary to its roots; a place to contemplate and meaningfully contribute to society while incarcerated, in the process transforming shame into contribution.

On these calls, Kate will share her vision for a rehumanized, connected and nourishing prison environment that pours out into the world. She will hold conversations about the prison industrial complex, its entanglement with ecological destruction and dehumanization. Kate is an advocate and believer that the greatest opportunity for benefit lies in starting with what’s considered most difficult.