Annabel Davis-Goff

Director, Bennington College's Prison Education Initiative

Vermont

Annabel Davis-Goff is the director of Bennington College’s Prison Education Initiative (PEI). PEI offers Bennington College courses with transferable credits at Great Meadow, a maximum-security men’s prison in Comstock, New York. She is the director of Bennington’s Incarceration in America initiative, which offers courses, visiting speakers, theatrical events, conferences, think tanks, and panels focused of public action and policy around criminal justice reform. She was also a founding member of the board of directors of Housing+Solutions (H+S), an organization that developed the first family alternative to incarceration program in the country, and is now expanding the program to divert women from Rikers Island. Davis-Goff also is a member of the literature faculty at Bennington College and has written a number of novels and a memoir.