EDIC-PDC Workshop by Dr. Anna Plemons

About the event

An Interpretive Framework for Community-based Teaching and Research

Between 2009-2019, Anna Plemons was a guest teaching artist at New Folsom Prison in California.  During that time Plemons finished her PhD and grappled with how to do community-based work that was respectful, reciprocal, and relational while also conducting research.  This interactive session pairs storytelling from that teaching experience with a discussion of the five-part interpretive framework for community-based teaching and research that Plemons used to find her way through that work.  Participants will have an opportunity to contextualize the five framework elements (decolonial intention and ethics, researcher preparation, community accountability, reciprocal/community benefits, and knowledge gathering/meaning making) within their own teaching and research contexts.

Anna Plemons is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs and system Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion officer at Washington State University Tri-Cities.  She is also a tenured faculty member in the Digital Technology and Culture department.  Anna oversees a host of offices and programs focused on student success, with a special focus on inclusion, diversity, equity, and access.   She previously taught creative nonfiction in the California prison system and has written about that experience in Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom (2019).