The East Side Freedom Library and the Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative invite you to take part in September’s Shared Learning Community Circle with author/activist Zeke Caliguiri, “Writing and Creating in Defiance of Minnesota’s Love Story with Punishment.”

Click here to join this meeting on Zoom on September 15th at 4:30pm CT.

FREC’s shared learning is a way to share ideas, stories, articles, videos, books, blogs, poems and more with others who are interested in learning together to gain new perspectives, exchange bold ideas and build knowledge.

Zeke Caliguiri is a writer and activist from South Minneapolis. He is the author of “This is Where I Am,” published by University of Minnesota Press. He has won multiple awards through the PEN Prison Writing Contest and is the co-founder of the Stillwater Writer’s Collective, the first all-prisoner created and facilitated collective in the country. He is a contributor to the “The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison” as well as “School, Not Jail: How Educators Can Disrupt School Pushout and Mass Incarceration.” He is directly impacted by over two decades of incarceration and is now currently the re-entry education coordinator for the Minnesota Justice Research Center re-investing in the humanization of those still stuck within the captivity business.

Free and open to all