Breaking Bread, Building Bonds: How Incarcerated Women in Lebanon Found Unity Through Food."

Lara is an anthropology PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Graduate Assistant at the university’s Jail Education Initiative.Her doctoral dissertation project researches prison systems in Lebanon by drawing on the memories and creative practices of formerly incarcerated women.As a university student in Beirut, Lebanon, she was actively involved in state-opposition groups. These combined experiences have deeply influenced her goals, which are to work collaboratively with her interlocutors and imagine/create alternative realities, worlds, and futures.