The Educational Justice Institute grew out of Lee Perlman’s dedication and passion to provide incarcerated men and women with the opportunity to obtain college degrees. Lee began teaching in prisons in 2012, through Boston University’s Prison Education Program. He founded the ESG Prison Education Program Prison Initiative in 2016, and cofounded TEJI with Carole Cafferty in 2018, with the support of ESG. Through the initiative, Lee teaches classes to both MIT and incarcerated students at minimum– to maximum–security Massachusetts Correctional Institutions. (For more information about Lee, see his bio under ESG Teaching Staff above.)