Halle Neiderman
Halle Neiderman is a doctoral candidate in Kent State University’s Rhetoric and Composition program. She studies institutional critique, prison literacy, and sustainability literacy. She founded the ID13 project in collaboration with Christopher Dum in 2016 as a response to the inmates’ desires for weekly publishing help and reading sessions at Lake Erie Correctional Institute. Since its conception, Neiderman works to provide participants with new and engaging ways to offer publishing help and outlets while working alongside Dr. Dum and Bengt to ensure the public hears participant voices.
"ID13 has made visible to me not only the lack of access and resources provided to inmates, but the lack of humanity they maintain as the institution has stripped them of it. An obviously rewarding experience, the work we do in the prison also makes obvious us that voices need to brought outside the program, in the public, to help our participants (and other inmates as a result) regain their voices and their humanity."
"ID13 has made visible to me not only the lack of access and resources provided to inmates, but the lack of humanity they maintain as the institution has stripped them of it. An obviously rewarding experience, the work we do in the prison also makes obvious us that voices need to brought outside the program, in the public, to help our participants (and other inmates as a result) regain their voices and their humanity."