PRESS & PRAISE

Elizabeth Hinton, an associate professor of history and of African and African American Studies and the author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press, 2016), noted Stern’s reputation “for transforming lives and being one of the foremost prison educators in the country.” The pair collaborated on “Beyond the Gates,” and “Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis.”

SELECTED PRESS

Rethinking Justice and Trauma

Vassar for Action by Max Cutner Walsh
June 16, 2020

In prisons, a looming coronavirus crisis

Harvard Gazette by Colleen Walsh
April 2, 2020

Kaia Stern States Her Case

Radcliffe Magazine by Colleen Walsh
Summer 2019

Reforming the Criminal Justice System: Atlanta Preacher Takes Aim At Nation’s Prisons

Harvard Gazette by Colleen Walsh
October 17, 2019

Rethinking Prison Education in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Books Not Bars Open Source Radio with Christopher Lydon
March 8, 2018

Questions Of Prestige And Promise As Harvard Blocks Manning

WBUR by Max Larkin
September 16, 2017

5 Criminal justice reform focus of upcoming conference at Bates.
Dr Kaia Stern Delivers Keynote

Lewiston Sun Journal
April 6, 2016

Restoration of Pell Grant Eligibility for People in Prison

Resolution by the American Bar Association
August 3-4, 2015

Connecting with Prisoners and Their World

Harvard Magazine by Elizabet Gudrais
February 15, 2013

From Attica to Abolition: An Evening to Honor Edwin (Eddie) Ellis

Austin Hall, Ames Courtroom, Harvard Law School
November 10, 2011

Degrees for the Dead

Harvard Crimson by James K. Mcauley
September 28, 2010

Exploring the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009

Testimony to U.S. Senate Committee by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
June 11, 2009

Radical Commitments: The Life and Legacy of Angela Davis

Introduction by Kaia Stern
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
October 29, 2019

Color and Incarceration

Harvard Magazine by Lydialyle Gibson
September-October 2019

Beyond Bars, Beyond Gates

The Harvard Crimson by Nawal K. Arjini, Martin M. Bernstein, and Sonya A. Karabel Legg
March 5, 2018

What To Do About American Prisons?

An interview with Kaia Stern - The Editorial by Heidi Legg
March 2017

5 Ways The U.S. Prison Industrial Complex Mimics Slavery

Bustle by Gina M. Florio
February 17, 2016

From prison to poverty

Harvard Gazette by Colleen Walsh
February 24, 2015

Lady Gaga Visit Prompts Harvard To Confront History Of Secret Court

Radio Boston by Meghna Chakrabarti
February 29, 2012

Rev. Dr. Kaia Stern to Visit SLU on Tuesday.

Saint Louis Dispatch by Amelia Blanton
April 4, 2011

Soldier of Conscience Granted Clemency, Released

Truth Out by Dahr Jamail
March 25, 2010

Kaia Stern Discusses Her Work at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

New Prosperity Initiative by NPi
May 1, 2009

Photo by Brad Trent