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S5E5: Prof says exonerees teach students how to 'survive and thrive'

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Conversations, stories, and perspectives from returned citizens in Southwest Ohio.
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Conversations, stories, and perspectives from returned citizens in Southwest Ohio.

ReEntry Stories features conversations, stories, and perspectives from returned citizens (people who served time in prison) in Ohio. This season, we are focusing on wrongfully convicted people who spent time in prison for crimes they didn't commit.

Rachel McMillian, an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois, partners with the Ohio Innocence Project to invite exonerees, people who were convicted of a crime and later officially declared innocent of that crime, to her classroom to educate her students about wrongful incarceration.

Support for ReEntry Stories comes from The Montgomery County Office of Reentry and the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO.

Mary Evans is a Dayton, Ohio-based activist, abolitionist, and journalist. She holds a BA in the Business of Interdisciplinary Media Arts from Antioch College. In 2022 she was awarded the Bob and Norma Ross Outstanding Leadership Award at the 71st Dayton NAACP Hall of Freedom Awards. She has been a Community Voices producer at WYSO since 2018. Her projects include: Re Entry Stories, a series giving space to system-impacted individuals and West Dayton Stories, a community-based story-telling project centered on the people and places of Dayton’s vibrant West Side. Mary is also the co-founder of the Journalism Lab and helps folks in the Miami Valley that are interested in freelance journalism reach some of their reporting goals.