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Introducing New Staff Members
Mount Tamalpais College is excited to welcome three new staff members to our team: Denisse Manrique, Jacob Kernodle, and Kevin Milyavskiy. Denisse Manrique, Development Associate Before joining Mount...
View ArticleCommunity Dialogs: Innovative Approaches to Reentry
In California, most people are released from prison with $200 and meager other supports for rebuilding their lives. The challenges to landing on their feet are enormous, especially for those who have...
View ArticleStudent Steve Brooks Honored by Society of Professional Journalists
Steve Brooks was awarded a Contest Award by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California for his commentary on criminal justice in California in “The Hidden Heroes Forgotten Inside” and...
View ArticleAcademic Program Resumes at San Quentin with Eight-Week Correspondence Courses
After nearly a year of suspended programming, we are thrilled to resume Associate of Arts degree courses to help sustain students’ academic development during this extended period of disruption. For...
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Community Dialogs: COVID-19 Vaccination and the Incarcerated Community on...
We are excited to announce our next Community Dialogs event, COVID-19 Vaccination and the Incarcerated Community. This free event will be held over Zoom on Thursday, February 25, 6:30pm–7:45pm PST....
View ArticleCommunity Dialogs: COVID-19 Vaccination and the Incarcerated Community
California has acted quickly to make the COVID-19 vaccine available to prison staff and residents. However, some people are reluctant or refusing to take the vaccine, citing concerns over its safety...
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Our 2020 Annual Report is Now Available
It has now been a full year since the pandemic shut down all programs at San Quentin. With this report we hope to not only provide an overview of our work during this unprecedented year, and share...
View ArticlePresident Jody Lewen Honored by James Irvine Foundation
President Jody Lewen was recently honored by the James Irvine Foundation for Mount Tamalpais College’s COVID-19 relief efforts in California prisons. The Foundation applauded Mount Tamalpais College’s...
View ArticleHow I Convinced My Incarcerated Peers to Make Language a Priority
Rahsaan Thomas, an imprisoned journalist, has long fought to change the way outside media describe people in prison. One of his toughest crowds? His fellow reporters. I once read an article about an...
View ArticleFollowing Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak, Incarcerated People at San Quentin...
Last July, San Quentin State Prison was home to one of the nation’s most severe coronavirus outbreaks, which killed 28 prisoners and one staff member. In January, the California Department of...
View ArticleShowtime for Former Student Aaron Taylor
Six months out on parole from San Quentin State Prison, former Mount Tamalpais College student Aaron ‘Showtime’ Taylor earned the opportunity he had worked toward for 26 years: serving as guest PA...
View ArticleJournalism at San Quentin
Attribution: This article originally appeared in SFWeekly on April 29, 2021. Read Story When a COVID-19 outbreak ravaged San Quentin State Prison last May, infecting over half the incarcerated...
View ArticleStaff Spotlight: Jen Juras
We’re thrilled to welcome Jen Juras as Mount Tamalpais College’s new Chief of Institutional Effectiveness and Research. We asked Jen a few questions to learn more about her background, professional...
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COVID-19 Relief Efforts Expand to Additional Prisons
More than a year into the pandemic, Mount Tamalpais College has expanded COVID-19 response efforts to include the delivery of 13,992 additional care packages to five more California prisons, including...
View ArticleHistoric Agreement Reached Allowing Laptop Use by Students
We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a historic agreement with the administration at San Quentin State Prison around the use of technology by Mount Tamalpais College students. As we resume...
View ArticleIn-Person Classes to Resume in September
We are thrilled to announce that we have been approved to return to in-person classes inside San Quentin in September. During the summer, we will plan and prepare for the fall semester, run...
View ArticleStudent Spotlight: Quincy Paige on Friendship
As part of Mount Tamalpais College’s summer 2021 fundraising campaign we are highlighting the bonds of support that exist within the incarcerated community at San Quentin, and the many ways that...
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Student Spotlight: Jesse Ayers on Friendship
As part of Mount Tamalpais College’s summer 2021 fundraising campaign we are highlighting the bonds of support that exist within the incarcerated community at San Quentin, and the many ways that...
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Student Spotlight: Alex Ross on Friendship
As part of Mount Tamalpais College’s summer 2021 fundraising campaign we are highlighting the bonds of support that exist within the incarcerated community at San Quentin, and the many ways that...
View ArticleMount Tamalpais College Awarded 2021 California Nonprofit of the Year
NONPROFIT HONORED BY ASSEMBLYMEMBER MARC LEVINE San Rafael, June 25, 2021 – Mount Tamalpais College is proud to announce its selection as a 2021 California Nonprofit of the Year by Assemblymember Marc...
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