Hailey Pierce is a ‘20 Furman graduate in English and Film studies. Recently, she has been studying the transformative power of writing as an essential facet of education and as a developing factor of identity, empathy, and self-expression. Her talk will focus on her experience in teaching Creative Writing to twelve inmates at Perry Correctional Institution and the importance of prison education. Hailey Pierce is a senior at Furman. She has spent almost all of her life reading and watching movies, making up her own stories and telling them to others. Recently, she have been studying the transformative power of writing as an important facet of education and as a developing factor of identity, empathy, and self-expression. Her talk will focus on her experience in teaching Creative Writing to twelve inmates at Perry Correctional Institution and the importance of prison education as a whole. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
The Camaraderie of Shared Experience | Hailey Pierce | TEDxFurmanU