Team
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University and an affiliated scholar with the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL. She is an affiliated fellow with Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA). She is the author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court (2016) and The Waiting Room (2018). She is the generator and faculty lead for the Mass Incarceration Lab @ CSREA, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Nina Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Program in Black Studies at Swarthmore College. She is a scholar of inequality, politics, race culture, stratification, and mobility, and she is an experienced educator and collaborator with students and scholars who are incarcerated in U.S. prisons. She is the Mass Incarceration Humanities Lab Fellow, contributing her expertise as a prison educator in identifying and collecting materials for the archive.
Esteem Brumfield is the Research Director for the Mass Incarceration Lab @ CSREA. His work examines the relationship between incarceration, mental health, and public health outcomes. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Health at Brown University. Prior to pursuing his Masters, Esteem served as a Public Health Commissioner for Alameda County and reviewed health effects of incarceration within the county. He holds a Bachelors from the University of California, Berkeley.