Workshop: Tobi Jacobi

Tobi Jacobi presented a workshop on the secondary trauma experienced by prison literacy/writing program workers at the annual conference of the National Association of Poetry Therapy in Chicago on April 13.

Award: Tobi Jacobi

Leslee Becker and Sarah Sloane, Co-Chairs, Awards Committee, are pleased to announce that Tobi Jacobi has won the following College of Liberal Arts Award:

• Distinction in Outreach Award.

 

 

Paper Presentation: Tobi Jacobi

Tobi Jacobi presented a paper on feminist prison work, contributed to a pre-conference workshop on prison teaching, and co-led the prison teaching/research special interest group at the recent Conference on College Composition and Communication in Las Vegas, NV (and she only lost $5).

Award: Tobi Jacobi

Tobi Jacobi has been selected for the 2012-13 Distinction in Outreach Award in the College of Liberal Arts.  The award will be presented at the spring CLA faculty/staff meeting on Wednesday, March 27.

Publication: Tobi Jacobi and Stephanie Becker

Tobi Jacobi and Stephanie Becker’s essay, “Rewriting Confinement: Feminist and Queer Critical Literacy in SpeakOut! Writing Workshops,” appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Radical Teacher.

Interview: Tobi Jacobi

An interview with Tobi Jacobi on CLC’s SpeakOut jail writing workshops is featured in the new issue of Matterhorn (http://issuu.com/wolverinefarm/docs/matterhorn_books/1#).  It was written by English alum, Molly McCowan.

Presentation: Tricia Lincoln and Tobi Jacobi

Tricia Lincoln and Tobi Jacobi presented a talk (“Transforming the CSU Writing Center:  Anticipating an International Campus by 2020”) at the Morgan Library November Master Teacher Initiative on Wednesday, November 28 2012.

Community Literacy Center News

Tobi Jacobi hosted a Community Literacy Center site visit for a team of service learning and outreach writing faculty from the CU-Boulder Writing Program.

Paper Presentation: Tobi Jacobi

Tobi Jacobi presented two papers at the recent CCCC meeting: “Feminist Literacy Work within Spaces of Confinement” and “From the Pacific to the Atlantic and Everywhere In-Between: The Challenge of Publishing Prison Writing.”

Tobi Jacobi: Book Editor

Tobi Jacobi has accepted an invitation to serve as the book editor for Reflections, a journal of community literacy and service learning.