NATIONAL UTILITIES DIVERSITY COUNCIL PRESENTS DR. KEESHA MIDDLEMASS IN FREE WEBINAR ON RETURNING CITIZENS ON OCTOBER 16, 2025 | PR Newswire [Video]

, /PRNewswire/ — The National Utilities Diversity Council (NUDC) announced today that Dr. Keesha Middlemass, Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, one of the nation’s leading scholars on prisoner reentry, will lead a national webinar on her award-winning research on the experiences of returning citizens (formerly incarcerated individuals) returning to the community. Convicted & Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry will take place on Wednesday, October 16 at 10:00 am PDT. The webinar is part of NUDC’s series on best practices in training and hiring returning citizens. This webinar is free and attendees may register at the NUDC website – https://nudc.com/events.

Dr. Middlemass, whose book, Convicted and Condemned: The Policies and Politics of Prisoner Reentry (NY University Press) won the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), has focused much of her research on the politics of punishment, racial justice, and the lived experiences of formerly incarcerated …