Art & Writing as Activism with Robert Pollock Jr. [Part 1]

Pursuing Justice

Robert Pollock has worked with the justice system and its intersection with the arts for over a decade. He has worked with Road Recovery, Rehabilitation Through the Arts, Musicambia, Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, and Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections. He managed PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program and published 6 anthologies of the award winning work of incarcerated writers.

He has collaborated with the Fortune Society, Osborne Association, and several NYC grassroots organizations. He has participated in workshops and panels at Columbia, Harvard, NYU, Yale, and other universities to advocate for the power of the arts in prison education and restorative justice practices.

As a singer-songwriter, his compositions have been heard at the Obama White House, the RFK Human Rights Foundation, Create Justice forums, the Vera Institute of Justice Gala, the New York Ethical Society, and Carnegie Hall. Robert is a Fall 2019 New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow.

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