Laura McTighe

Laura McTighe began work on HIV and prison issues thirteen years ago in the Philadelphia restorative justice and AIDS activist movements.  In 2009, she launched the Institute for Community Justice, a Philadelphia-based national initiative committed to community justice: the community-inspired, community-led solutions for healing in a time of mass imprisonment.  Laura earned her Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, where she studied as a Presidential Scholar, and is completing a manuscript exploring HIV/AIDS, gender justice and economic justice through the stories of Muslim women living with HIV in the United States and South Africa.