:Draft:Leanne Trapedo Sims

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Leanne Trapedo Sims is an American scholar and social justice activist. She is the Daniel J. Logan Professor of Peace and Justice and Chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.{{cite web|title=Leanne Trapedo Sims|url=https://www.knox.edu/academics/faculty/trapedo-sims-leanne|location=Galesburg, Ill.|author=Knox College|access-date=May 9, 2025}} She is the author of Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women’s Prison Writing (2023).{{cite web|date=September 2023|title=Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women's Prison Writing|url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/reckoning-with-restorative-justice|location=Durham, N.C.|publisher=Duke University Press|access-date=May 10, 2025}}

Background

Trapedo Sims was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of geriatrician Dr. Farrol Sims (1937–2020) and Jewish educator Lilian Sims (née Trapedo).{{efn|The Trapedo family traces its roots to Lithuania (where their surname was spelled Trapido) and ultimately to pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal.{{cite web|title=Trapido Family Book|url=https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kupiskis/isrtrap.htm|last=Trapido|first=Israel|date=August 24, 1979|publisher=JewishGen|access-date=May 10, 2025}}}}{{cite news|date=September 29, 2020|title=Dr. Farrol Sims|url=https://www.jewishchronicle.org/2020/09/29/obituaries-october-2020/|work=Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle|publisher=Milwaukee Jewish Federation|access-date=May 9, 2025}} The Sims family immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the late 1970s.{{cite book|last=Trapedo Sims|first=Leanne|date= |title=Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women's Prison Writing|location=Durham|publisher=Duke University Press|page=27}}

Education

Trapedo Sims attended the University of Wisconsin, earning a B.A. in English. She received M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (Creative Writing and Literary Studies), New York University (Performance Studies) and Fordham University (Education).

As a doctoral student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Trapedo Sims undertook feminist ethnographic research at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua, Hawaiʻi, and taught creative writing classes there. This research is the foundation of her book Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women’s Prison Writing.{{cite book|last=Trapedo Sims|first=Leanne|title=Reckoning with Restorative Justice|page=xiv}}{{cite news|last=Doherty|first=Chelsea|date=December 10, 2018|title=Activist in Residence Shares Perspectives on Women in Prison|url=https://stockton.edu/news/2018/activist-in-residence-leanne-sims.html|location=Galloway, N.J.|publisher=Stockton University|access-date=May 10, 2025}} She received her Ph.D. in American Studies in 2017.

Professional career

Trapedo Sims has held faculty positions at Northeastern University (2016–17),{{cite web|title=Past Visiting Scholars|url=https://cssh.northeastern.edu/wgss/past-visiting-scholars/|location=Boston, Mass.|author=Northeastern University|access-date=May 9, 2025}} Pace University (2017–18),{{cite report|date=February 7, 2018|title=New York Faculty Council Meeting Minutes|url=https://www.pace.edu/sites/default/files/files/NYFC/minutes/NYFCMinutes02-07-18withAttachments(1).pdf|location=New York |publisher=Pace University|page=17|access-date=May 10, 2025}} Stockton University (2018–19, where she had the title "activist in residence") and Northern New Mexico College (2021–22).

Since 2021, she has been the Daniel J. Logan Professor of Peace and Justice at Knox College, where she is creating an interdisciplinary program in Peace & Justice Studies. She has also established a prison education program at nearby Hill Correctional Center. It includes Inside-Out classes in which Knox undergraduates study together with incarcerated men within the prison walls.{{cite news|date=July 10, 2023|title=Peace & Justice Students Learn Inside Galesburg's Correctional Center|url=https://www.knox.edu/news/peace-and-justice-students-learning-inside-galesburgs-correctional-center|location=Galesburg, Ill.|publisher=Knox College|access-date=May 10, 2025}}

She is an active member of Illinois Humanities, the Peace and Justice Studies Association, the European Forum for Restorative Justice, the Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison, and the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison.

Awards and honors

Envisioning Justice grants from Illinois Humanities{{cite news|last=Hallett|first=Mark|date=September 19, 2022|title=Envisioning Justice Grantee Partner Spotlight: Leanne Trapedo Sims|url=https://ilhumanities.org/news/leanne-trapedo-sims|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=Illinois Humanities|access-date=May 10, 2025}}
2023 Bard Prison Initiative Summer Residency{{cite web|title=BPI Summer Residency 2023 Cohort|url=https://bpi.bard.edu/beyond/national-engagement/summer-residency/2023-cohort/|location=Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.|publisher=Bard Prison Initiative|access-date=May 10, 2025}}

Selected publications

Interview, [https://cmv-educare.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FINAL_24-MAY_NEWSLETTER_CHAIR-EDUCATION-IN-PRISON_EN_compressed.pdf UNESCO Chair of Applied Research for Education in Prison newsletter], May 2024
Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawaiʻi Women’s Prison Writing, Duke University Press, 2023
[https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/2020/46/1 "Reimagining Home: Redemption and Resistance in Hawai‘i Women’s Prison Writing"], Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46:1, Fall 2020
[https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/issue/9000019847281/frontiers-392/ "Love Letters: Performative and Biological Families"], Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 39:2, 2018
[https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3bf9e108-707f-4894-92bd-a47ec8a8ebdc/content "The Culinary of Flesh: Kizkalesi Beach"], Hawai‘i Review 83, Winter 2016
[https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/6043d50e-fe26-448c-a37b-5bcc065fd661/content "Love Letters"], Hawai‘i Review 82, 2015

External links

[https://newbooksnetwork.com/reckoning-with-restorative-justice interview], New Books Network
[https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2023-10-03/knox-college-pilot-program-gives-students-henry-hill-prisoners-an-opportunity-to-learn-together interview], WCBU
[https://www.knox.edu/academics/faculty/trapedo-sims-leanne Knox College biography]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh2Vk2qzMyA Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program presentation]