NTRVW#41. Prison to Professor: Martin Leyva

In and out of California prisons since his teens, Martin Leyva was introduced to revolutionary educational ideals in his final years of serving time. He pursued higher education upon release from prison and has since then finished a graduate degree in sociology and working on a doctorate of education at California State University San Marcos. We sat down at the National Conference for Higher Education in Prison 2021 to talk about his life and education in prison, influential people in his life like his elder Mitch Bodner, what it's like to teach at the University, and what he's doing now to "help the people," a mantra he was admonished to pursue once released from prison.

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