Tina Reynolds interview, 2023-07-20

This is an oral history interview with Tina Reynolds, a long-time Coalition for Women Prisoners member and a voice on the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) discretion campaign and anti-shackling legislation campaign. The interview was conducted on July 20th, 2023 by Ana Sofia Harrison and Adam Johnson. Tina discusses her experience growing up in Red Bank, NJ. She elaborates on the traumas at home that affected her greatly and reflects on the fond memories she has from those days growing up with her siblings. She describes growing up mostly with her grandparents, and speaks about this experience. She talks about going to different schools than her siblings for high school due to bussing. She speaks about the organization Justice Works, and how, after being incarcerated it helped her open up with other women about her trauma in and out of prison. She speaks about having kids while in and out of prisons, and about her transfers to almost every women's prison in NY state. She speaks on gender, legislation she fought for, and people she encountered through this work. She speaks of her attendance and graduation at New York City colleges, first acquiring her bachelors from York, CUNY and then her Masters in Social work at Hunter College, School of Social Work.