Activist and author
Jean Trounstine is an activist, author and professor emerita at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts. Her most recent book is "Boy With a Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse and a Prisoner’s Fight for Justice." It explores the injustice of sentencing juveniles to adult prisons.
Trounstine worked at Framingham Women’s Prison for 10 years, where she directed eight plays with prisoners, and wrote the highly praised "Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison." She has spoken around the world on women in prison, co-founded the women’s branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an award-winning alternative sentencing program, and co-authored two books about the program.