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Math PhD student Marisa Gaetz is one of the co-founders of Brave Behind Bars, a pilot program based out of The Educational Justice Institute at MIT (TEJI). The program provides an introductory computer science and career-readiness program for incarcerated women.
“[The students] seemed much more inspired to learn when it’s something that’s dear to your heart, rather than something that’s just kind of abstract and distant,” Gaetz says in an interview with WGBH.