Dr. Alan Gomez is a Historian, he is the best teacher on earth in a classroom setting and has to be completely avoided to not be learned from, because he teaches by simply being.  Dr Gomez leads the way to Higher Education for convicts.  He teaches things like “Caminamos preguntado” (Walking together asking questions), and “Mandar obeciendo” (Lead by obeying), which are pivotal teachings that open the way to understanding there can be, even in prison, “Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos” (A world where many worlds fit).  Dr Gomez is mindful, cautious with his words, teaching us that words create worlds, and while engaging in the development of communities of care, we should be careful not to harm with our words.  Dr Gomez is patient, but it harms him when I harm others, which deeply harms me, and makes me want to stop.

Dr. Alan Gomez asks the free activist, “What do we do on the outside to see there is not outside from the outside?”  How do you appreciate freedom if you can’t comprehend its alternative?  You should look inside, one day there may not be anything except outside.

Dr. Kyla Pasha taught us many things with a perfect balance of bitchiness and beauty with the most peculiar mix of shyness and danger.  She sashayed across just about every line and smiled at us from every forbidden zone, I became addicted to this new way of unlearning.  Dr. Pasha is a poet, a historian, a journalist, a playwright and a religious scholar.  She taught us to write poetry and taught us the taboo of rhyming.  I rhyme every poem I write solely because she said not to, as offerings, acts of rebellious solidarity.