Sylvia Ryerson
Sylvia Ryerson received her B.A. from Wesleyan University with High Honors in American Studies and Music. After graduating in 2010, Sylvia worked at Appalshop, a documentary arts center in Central Appalachia. Sylvia served as a radio producer and Director of Public Affairs Programming for Appalshop’s community radio station WMMT-FM, and led Calls from Home, a nationally recognized radio show broadcasting toll-free phone messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated in rural Appalachia. In 2015 she started Restorative Radio, a participatory audio documentary project that sends “audio postcards” to people in prisons and ICE immigrant detention centers. Her research is rooted at the intersection of scholarship, activism and art, and probes the overlapping crises of mass incarceration and detention, rural poverty, and environmental destruction. Her work has been featured on NPR, the BBC, The Marshall Project, the Boston Review, the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Transom.org, and in the film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes.
People
- Candace Borders Yale
- Ryan Brasseaux Yale
- Marisa Brown Brown Public Humanities
- Jasmine Chu Brown Public Humanities
- Mary Marshall Clark Columbia
- Stacy M. Hartman CUNY
- Charlotte Hecht Yale
- Matthew Jacobson Yale
- Mark Krasovic Rutgers
- Meredith B. Linn Bard Graduate Center
- Steven Lubar Brown Public Humanities
- Seth Moglen Lehigh University
- Cheryl Nixon University of Massachusetts Boston
- Diane O’Donoghue Tufts
- Mary Rizzo Rutgers
- Karin Roffman Yale
- Katina Rogers CUNY
- Sylvia Ryerson Yale
- Susan Smulyan Brown Public Humanities
- Doris Sommer Harvard University
- Amy Starecheski Columbia
- Laura Troiano Rutgers
- Shana Weinberg Brown Public Humanities
- Laura Wexler Yale
- Catherine Whalen Bard Graduate Center