“It’s a sweep! When I nominated four amazing Odyssey women for prestigious Business Forum of Madison scholarships, I hoped all four would win the four adult scholarships — and they did!” says Odyssey codirector Emily …
Year: 2021
Odyssey alumni graduate!
“Odyssey is a major reason why I have succeeded. It was my foundation, my stepping stone, to overcoming so many obstacles.” So said Dominique Christian, Odyssey Class of 2009, who earned her master’s degree in …
The UW-Odyssey Project shines a light on George Floyd’s death
“We linked the George Floyd killing to centuries of racial injustice,” explained Auerbach. The program studied Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Langston Hughes and others. “We link today to what we’re reading from …
UW program will teach for-credit college courses in Wisconsin prisons
Channel 3000, May 18 2021
Education Behind and Beyond Bars
Inside Higher Ed, May 18 2021
Madison Writing Assistance Celebration of Writing 2021: Sharing Stories, Writing for Change
With the Story Exchange, we wanted to create a virtual space where folks could share short stories about their relationship with writing, in the hope that these stories would inspire others to recognize their labor …
“This class has been heroic and inspiring in their resilience.”
The heartache and the hardship for this class has been overwhelming, but so has the perseverance and the courage, -UW Odyssey Project Director Emily Auerbach tells Madison365. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Odyssey Project, now in …
While coaching Odyssey students, theater professor wins major award
In the middle of coaching Odyssey students for their graduation videos, Professor Baron Kelly got a call that left him in tears, overwhelmed: He had just been selected for the prestigious College of Fellows of …
Real photos of a virtual class
“It was a full circle moment for me,” says Odyssey alum Hedi Rudd ’12, as she snapped pictures of the graduating Class of 2021 and their families. “I remember the day my class got our …
Odyssey Beyond Bars offers new multicultural literature course at Oakhill
“We often search for scars which lay bare on the outside, never considering the more hurtful scars present on the inside. Having served nearly 25 years of incarceration, I know firsthand that the hidden scars …