Radical installation Team
Meet the Radical Team Members responsible for onsite installation of our creative/performance spaces inside the carceral system that highlight the writing and reading of poetry and music production. The poetry workshops and seminars are conducted by Poet Randall Horton and the music, Devin Waldman. Travis Scott is our inhouse studio producer, Najaya Royal our Program Manager.
Randall Horton is Executive Director. He is a writer, poet, artist, and an associate professor of English at the University of New Haven. He is the only person in the United States with seven felony convictions and academic tenure. Horton is the recipient of the 2022 Creative Capital Award, the American Book Award for Oral Literature, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir, a Poet-in-Residence at the Civil Right Corpse, and a Soze Foundation Right to Return Fellow. His poetry collection {#289-128} was published by the University of Kentucky Press Northwestern University Press and received a 2021 American Book Award, as well. Dead Weight: A Memoir published by Northwestern University Press in 2022. 
Travis Scott is Radical Reversal's in house Music Producer. He oversees music recording, mixing and mastering. He travles to all locations teaching beats and composing tracks. Travis is a music producer from Birmingham, Alabama. He is co-owner of T. Scott Enterprises, LLC and TSE Studios, founded in 2018 by brothers Terrence, Travis, and Trenton Scott. 
Najaya Royal is Program Manager and has been overseeing the daily operations of Radical Reversal since 2021, which entails correspondence with department of corrections and collaborative partners, coordinating the Radical Reversal Reading Series and overseeing the installation of multimedia driven equipment and scheduling within carceral spaces.
Najaya was born and raised in Brooklyn, Ny. She is a 12x’s published poet, University of New Haven graduate 20’ & former radio host.
She manages musical artist with the hopes of eventually opening a management company to help with inner city artist development and success.
Devin B Waldman is Artistic Director and oversees .l arts based activities within Radical Reversal Programing. Devin is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music producer. He leads the group BRAHJA and is a co-founder of the groups Radical Reversal, Notable Deaths, and Diva of Deva Loka; and a member of the bands Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Land Of Kush, MoE, and Malcolm Mooney & The Eleventh Planet. Waldman has performed with artists such as Abiodun Oyewole, Patti Smith, William Parker, Nadah El Shazly, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thurston Moore, Hamid Drake, Janice Lowe, Mette Rasmussen, Charles Hayward, Yoshiko Chuma, Daniel Carter, James Brandon Lewis, Luke Stewart, and many others. As a youngun, Waldman learned from pianist Paul Bley. He has performed with his aunt Anne Waldman since the age of ten.
Meet Our Advisory Board
Katie Owens-Murphy is Associate Professor of English and graduate coordinator of the MA English program at the University of North Alabama. She also serves as PI for the Restorative Justice Lab and as the state coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Her work with people in prison has appeared in Humanities, Critical Criminology, Mississippi Quarterly, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her most recent book with Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama's Death Row, was published by Vanderbilt UP in 2023.
Louise Waakaa'igan , from the Lac Courte Orielles Reservation in Wisconsin, won the 2017 PEN America Prison Writing Award for her poem "This is Where." In 2016, she won first place in the broadside competition of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Her work has been published in 21 Mythologies, 2018; The Moon Magazine, 2018; 27th letter, 2017; and Words in Gray Scale, 2016. 
After his release from the NYS prison system in 2010, Seán Martín Dalpiaz has spent over a decade developing real estate & creating programming and community for youth in foster care & youth who are homeless. Seán is currently the Program Director over Osborne Association's Fulton Community Reentry Center in The Bronx, New York. The Fulton Community Reentry Center is the site of the former NYS Fulton prison. Seán has led the building renovation & program development & implementation of a transitional housing program for 140 formerly incarcerated men, over 50, returning from long-term incarceration. Sean has also served on the Strategic Adolescent Advisory Board for Rikers Island. Seán holds an Associates degree, a Bachelors in Sociology, and a Masters in Public Administration. He is also a published poet several times over.
Tracy Tamborra is a nationally recognized expert on domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, and the effects of the criminal justice system on women, persons of color, and persons affected by poverty.Dr. Tamborra has co-authored one book, Victimology: The Transformation into the 21st Century, and is currently completing her next book, The Truth about Rape in America: It’s Legal. In addition, she has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in journals such as Feminist Criminology, Violence and Victims, Violence Against Women, and Journal of Studies in International Education.
Meet Our Board directors
DaMaris B. Hill’s most recent book, Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, is deemed “urgent” and “luminous” in a starred Publisher’s Weekly review. Her first book, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, is a searing and powerful narrative-in-verse that bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration. It was an Amazon #1 Best Seller in African American Poetry and a Publishers Weekly Top 10 History Title for the season. Her digital work includes “Shut Up In My Bones”, a poem that uses “remix/pastiche, intertextuality, and irony as strategies of identity formation to remember and honor a specific cultural past, while at the same time working to construct visions of a better future”.
Similar to her creative process, Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Hill’s other books include The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, the chapbook, \Vi-zə-bəl\ \Teks-chərs\ (Visible Textures). Hill is a Professor of Creative Writing, English, and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Ghostwrite Mike - Carceral Strategies Consultant
Ghost is a carceral state resident in California, where he is Co-Creator of the poetry/rap-focused literary workshop Barz Behind Bars (B³); Managing Editor of the Barz Behind Bars digital blog published by Ben Free Publishing; Carceral Program Developer for Ben Free Project; Co-producer of the Lifer Cypher audio podcast interview series featured within the Radical Reversal podcast at the University of New Haven; Program Coordinator of the Art of Recovery & Therapy peer mentor-facilitated creative arts workshop; Co-Writer/Director of the My Teachable Moment and Dropout Diaries delinquency intervention video franchises; and currently participating in: ¹ the Rebirth of Sound curriculum cohort delivered by the Emmy/Grammy/Oscar-winning artist Common; ² the Freedom Reads Literary Ambassador workshops delivered by American Book Award-winning poet and Ellie-winning essayist Reginald Dwayne Betts; ³ the Actors Gang Prison Project delivered by the actor Tim Robbins; and ⁴ the Valley Adult Music Program, wherein he performs with his hybrid spoken word band Broken Soulz. He attends Merced college in pursuit of his undergraduate degree, facilitates a Trauma Talks working group, and is personally mentored in the journalism space by UCLA's Benjamin Frandsen, and in the poetry space by University of New Haven's Dr. Randall G. Horton, PhD.
Dr. LeJon Poole serves as the Director of the Healthcare Management program at Campbell University, as well as an Associate Professor of Management, teaching courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He received his B.A. with a double major in History and English from Samford University, and an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.In addition to his duties at Campbell, Dr. Poole also serves as a consultant to Healthcare Organizations in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. He specializes in Strategic Healthcare Management of Rural Hospitals & Healthcare Organizations, as well as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). In addition, Dr. Poole serves on the Board of Trustees for Saint Joseph’s of the Pines, a Continuing Care Retirement Community in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Born in the U.K., Sally-Ann has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Monash University,Melbourne, Australia, where she grew up. She has thirty year’s experience in executive search consulting, twenty with her own company, partnering with nonprofits in the human rights, social & criminal justice space, helping them to choose outstanding leaders.She has been a volunteer teaching job readiness to people leaving Rikers Island and served on the Board of a nonprofit whose mission was helping people with substance misuse issues access rehab services.A poet, her work has appeared in numerous journals and her chapbook Alphabet of a Nomad was published by Finishing Line Press in 2015. She is an avid photographer of people and embarking on a book pairing her poems and photos as well as selling her photos at craft markets
