Ron Jenkins is a professor of theater at Wesleyan University and teaches regularly as a visiting professor of religion and the arts at the Yale Divinity School, Institute of Sacred Music. He has facilitated theater workshops in prisons in Italy, Indonesia, and the U.S. Under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee’s Healing Justice Program, Jenkins now works with Larry White inside and outside of prison to use theater to disseminate the principles of White’s survival manual, “Hope Lives for Lifers.”