Project Rebound
About Us
Guiding Values
Project Rebound provides a life-affirming alternative to the revolving door policies of mass incarceration by making higher education more accessible and supportive of people with incarceration histories. Below are our guiding values. We believe in:
We believe that every person has inherent value and holds the power of possibility and transformation within them.
We believe that access to meaningful, high-quality, face-to-face higher education is fundamental to breaking intergenerational cycles of poverty, abuse, addiction, unemployment, and confinement.
We believe that the integration, education, and leadership of formerly incarcerated people are essential to the work of creating solutions to the social crisis of mass incarceration.
We believe that meaningful, high-quality higher education ultimately makes stronger, safer communities; we believe that public resources are better invested in education and other opportunities for transformation than prisons and punishment.
We believe that community engagement is at once a right, a responsibility, and a means of empowerment; we aim to inspire all Rebound Scholars to be informed and engaged civic agents.