Towards Justice and Racial Equity in STEM, Education, and Society: Perspectives of Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People Introduction to the Special Issue

This special issue explores the interconnected barriers to equality, peeling back layers of consequences wrought by the identity-based obstacles placed before formerly incarcerated people, limiting their access to STEM education and careers. This issue exemplifies the transformative power of centering the voices of system-impacted scholars—that is, educators, researchers, and advocates who have experienced incarceration—as leaders directly impacted by incarceration and their non-system-impacted research allies capture and critique the systemic barriers within education broadly and in STEM classrooms specifically.