Caroline Hann

Caroline’s work is a combination of her lived experience of growing up white in Appalachia, her post graduate training at The Institute for Family Services (IFS), and developing a form of transformative justice theatre with The Meta Theatre Company (MTC), a New Jersey based social justice theatre company in its 11th year of producing and performing original work.  IFS and Dr. Almeida’s transformative family therapy model became the foundation to creating MTC, which has grown into a theatre company / re-entry program utilizing a transformative justice model for women who are justice impacted (inside/outside) the prison walls.  The Meta Theatre Company believes theatre is a pathway to justice, and using transformative justice theatre, we write and perform our lived experiences, and invite audiences to interact with us during and after the performance to look at how systemic, institutional power intersects with our socially constructed positions like white privilege, race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. MTC works with audiences, organizations, and schools to build on this awareness, and create social justice action in the community. Caroline will be supporting and coordinating the annual Liberation Based Healing Conference, a conference created over 20 years ago by Dr. Almeida. Caroline received her MSW from Hunter College Silberman School of Social work.