María Elena Torre

María Elena Torre is an Assistant Professor of Education Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. Committed to participatory action research in schools, prisons and communities, she is a co-author of Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and Changing Minds: The Impact of College on a Maximum Security Prison, and has been published in Urban Girls, Revisited (NYU Press, 2007), Handbook of Action Research (Sage, 2007), Beyond Silenced Voices (Teachers College Press, 2005), Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design (American Psychological Association, 2003), and in journals such as Teachers College Record, the Journal of Social Issues, Feminism and Psychology, and the Journal of Critical Psychology. She has served as a consultant for New York City and State governments, community groups and colleges interested in establishing college-in-prison programs in facilities such as San Quentin and Sing-Sing.