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Tobi Jacobi

Listed at 21 conventions, 1998–2026, 50 listings.

changes of institution This name appears at several institutions in sequence and is read as one person changing jobs.

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2000200520102015202020251998 1998: speaker (1)1999: chair (1)1999: speaker (1)2004: chair (1)2004: speaker (1)2005: speaker (3)2006: speaker (2)2007: chair (1)2007: facilitator (1)2008: speaker (1)2009: facilitator (1)2009: speaker (1)2010: speaker (1)2012: speaker (2)2013: chair (1)2013: speaker (2)2015: chair (2)2015: speaker (1)2016: facilitator (1)2016: speaker (1)2017: respondent (1)2017: facilitator (1)2017: speaker (2)2018: facilitator (1)2018: speaker (2)2019: facilitator (1)2019: speaker (1)2020: facilitator (1)2020: speaker (3)2021: speaker (1)2024: speaker (2)2025: speaker (5)2026: facilitator (1)2026: speaker (2)

speakerchairrespondentfacilitatorother Grey band: 2000–2003, not in the corpus.

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
1998Taking the Writing Center on the Road: A Visit to Mujeres Latinas en Acción
“Exploring the Arts in Chicago: A First-Year Collaborative Writing Experience”
Speaker University of Illinois, Chicago → University of Illinois Chicago
1999Visible Communities in Visible Classrooms: Who’s “Serving” Who?Chair Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University
1999Visible Communities in Visible Classrooms: Who’s “Serving” Who?
“Dissolving the Walls: Community Service Learning in the Composition Classroom”
Presenters Syracuse University, NY → Syracuse University
2004Whose Words Where? The Promises and Perils of Community Literacy Projects and Publications
“Exploitation or Activism? The Circulation of Incarcerated Women’s Writings”
Presenters Colorado State University, Colorado Springs → Colorado State University
2004FEMINISM? WOMANISM? GENDER STUDIES? WHERE ARE WE NOW AND HOW DO WE MATTER?Chairs Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2005Forging a Community/University Literacy Center: Whose Interests? Whose Needs?
“Rant, Rave, and Write: ’Zine Writing as Community Literacy”
Presenters Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2005Qualitative Research NetworkPresenters Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2005Service-learning Special Interest GroupPresenters Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2006Literacy Activism in Public Spaces: Partnerships with Community Publishing and Arts
“Toward a Global Coalition of Community Writing and Publishing”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2006Community Literacy and Service-LearningSpeakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2007Writing and Literacy for Social Action: Highlander Learning Circles, Prison Writing Mentorships, and Community Building through Artists Now!
“Slipping Pages through Razor Wire: Writing Mentor Projects in Jail’ Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, “‘Artists Now!’: Literacy, Community, and Social Action” History”
Chair Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2007Service Learning, Community Literacy, and Civic Engage-ment: Developing Teaching and Research (sponsored by the Service Learning and Community Literacy SIG)
“Prison Literacy & Writing Projects”
Facilitators Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2008Bending Bars: Exploring Art, Literature, and Writing
“Jail-University Writing Partnerships: Who’s Mentoring Whom?”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2009Troubling Community Writing & Publishing: The Politics of Print and Online Circulation
“Wal Mart as my Copilot?: Literacy Sponsorship, and Community Publishing”
Facilitators Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2009Developing Long-Term, Reciprocal Relationships with Community Partners
“The Challenge of Intergenerational Community Literacy Projects”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2010Representing Prison Writers: Rhetorics, Realities, and Responsibilities
“Justice or Just Us: Reflections from a Feminist Jail Writing Workshop”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2012Feminist Engagements: Community-Based Participatory
“Feminist Literacy Work within Spaces of Confinement”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO → Colorado State University
2012Opening Prison Gates: Creating, Sustaining, Researching, and Extending Literacy Programs behind Bars
“From the Pacific to the Atlantic and Everywhere In-Between: The Challenge of Publishing Prison Writing”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2013Making Lives Behind Bars Visible: Literacy Programs
“Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Writers in Prison”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2013Feminist Methods Behind Bars: Critical Representation in Prison Research, Writing, and Teaching
“Solidarity in Stripes: Toward A Feminist Ethic of Prison Teaching”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2013Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research and LiteraciesCo-Chairs Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2015Narrative Truth: The Risks and Rewards of Prison
“I Am Not My History: The Twists and Turns of Narrative Truth in Jail”
Co-Chairs Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2015The Social Circulation of Prison Writings and Teaching Narratives
“‘With tears streaming down her pretty face’: Reframing the Rhetorical Narratives of Girls Imprisoned at the NY State Training School for Girls in the 1920s”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2015Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research, and LiteraciesCo-Chairs Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2016What Does It Mean for Prison Research and Teaching to Go Public?
“The Challenges of Going Public with Archival Prison Materials”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2016Disrupting the Cycle of Mass Incarceration: What CanDiscussion Leaders Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2017Received Passages: Prison Histories—They Don’t Speak for ThemselvesRespondent Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2017The Rigged Race: Public Memory, Local Connections, and Cultivating Change
“Not ‘All Ellas’: Risking Exploitation in a Prison Public Memory Project”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2017Community Writing Mentoring WorkshopSpeakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2017The Prison Next Door: What Types of Connections Do WeWorkshop Facilitators Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2018Transformative Leadership Development for CommunityWorkshop Facilitators Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2018Moments of (Queer) (Indigenous) (Abolitionist) Possibility
“Writing Revolutionary Suicides: Literacy Activism inside Prison Writing Workshops”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2018Activist or Educator? Rethinking the Transformative
“Activating Cells: The Urgency of Literacy in the 21st-Century Prison”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2019Spotlight Session: Feminist Archival Research: Performance, Ethics, and Remixing the Past
“Ribbon Girls, Cottage Matrons, and Parole Letters: A Feminist Reads the 1915 Annual Report from the New York State Training School for Girls”
Speakers Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2019Community Writing Mentoring WorkshopWorkshop Facilitators Colorado State University, Fort Collins → Colorado State University
2020Community Writing Mentoring WorkshopWorkshop Facilitators Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2020Prison Archives and Public Memory: Disrupting the Commonplaces of Incarceration
“‘She Had Frequently Told Lies’: Remixing Girls’ Prison Narratives as Feminist Public Memory Work”
Speakers Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2020Where Inside and Outside Meet: Naming Our
“Self-Care, Mindfulness, and Trauma for Jail Writing Facilitators”
Speakers Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2020Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research, and LiteraciesSpeaker Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2021Prison Archives and Public Memory: Disrupting Cycles of Incarceration On-Demand SessionSpeakers Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2024Prison and the Shadow Canon: Embracing the Fullness of System-Impacted Community Expertise
“Recognizing the Contributions of Global Prison Narratives”
Speaker(s) Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2024Community Writing Mentorship WorkshopSpeaker(s) Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2025Remixing Prison Literacies and PedagogiesSpeaker(s) Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2025Prison Writing and Pedagogy Collective SIG MeetingSpeaker(s) Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2025Community Listening: A Mixtape of Language, Literacy, and CultureSpeaker(s) Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2025Mail Call: Prison and the Complexity of Navigating Rhetorical and Physical Barriers of “Justice” SystemsSpeaker(s) Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2025Community Writing Mentorship WorkshopSpeaker(s) Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2026Community, Care, and Collaboration in Prison Literacies and PedagogiesPresenter Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2026Prison Literacies and PedagogiesPresenter Colorado State University → Colorado State University
2026Community Writing Mentorship WorkshopWorkshop Leader Colorado State University → Colorado State University

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