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Carrie Hutnick

Carrie Hutnick

George Mason University and the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

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Carrie's work combines: Education, Non-Profit Organizations, and Learning / Being Challenged

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Day In The Life

Graduate Student

Working on my dissertation, teaching social justice, and doing educational and organizing work with incarcerated people

Skills & Education

Here's the path I took:

  • High School

    Paul VI High Shool

  • Bachelor's Degree

    Family and Community Services

    Providence College

  • Graduate Degree

    Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Doctorate

    Sociology, General

    George Mason University

Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary:

Bachelor's Degree: Make-Up Artist/Specialist

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Life & Career Milestones

My path in life took a while to figure out

  • 1.

    Volunteering at a homeless shelter in high school

  • 2.

    Pursued a community-based learning program and undergraduate major in Public and Community Service Studies focused on community building for social change

  • 3.

    Working for four years with middle school boys, many connected to the correctional system as a tutor, a research assistant, a grant writer, and a volunteer coordinator/educator

  • 4.

    Taking a year to help with family members in need

  • 5.

    Working in Baltimore with clients to access social services, many who were coming out of the correctional system

  • 6.

    Completing a master's in higher education with a focus in service-learning, working with a court-mandated "nurturing father's program" and teaching service-learning to undergraduates

  • 7.

    Working for a service-learning program in Philadelphia and becoming involved in a prison education program that offers college courses to university students and incarcerated students taken together

  • 8.

    Pursuing a doctorate with a dissertation on shared learning spaces between people incarcerated and university students and learning that occurs together in collaborative movements for social change

Defining Moments

How I responded to discouragement

  • THE NOISE

    Messages from Peers:

    The social change you work for is too idealistic, or those you want to include in dialogue will never be changed, they are beyond learning or redemption. Others aren't worth engaging because they are ignorant or incapable of doing the work themselves.

  • How I responded:

    Mary Oliver wrote, "There are things you can't reach, but you can reach out to them, all day long." Bryan Stevenson wrote, "I don’t do what I do because it’s required or necessary or important. I do it because I’m broken, too. The ways in which I have been hurt- and have hurt others- are different from the ways others suffer and cause suffering. But our shared brokenness connects us." Doing social change work isn't about what you can "achieve," but how you connect and transform with others.

Experiences and challenges that shaped me

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