To date, over 18 program participants have been admitted to law school, including to UConn, Quinnipiac, Yale, Villanova, American University, Berkeley, Georgetown, and Western New England. In September 2020, Forman convened 12 Yale Law students and 20 first-generation New Haveners for a novel experiment in legal education: a law-student run pipeline program helping people from under-represented groups achieve their dreams of becoming lawyers. Professor Forman’s first book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, was on many top 10 lists, including The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2017, and was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He is particularly interested in the race and class dimensions of those institutions. Professor Forman’s scholarship focuses on schools, police, and prisons. The Maya Angelou leadership team dreams of a world in which no person is behind bars in the meantime, they believe that everyone - including those incarcerated - deserve a high-quality education. In the decades since its founding, Maya Angelou School has expanded to run multiple schools inside D.C.’s youth and adult prisons. In 1997, along with David Domenici, he started the Maya Angelou School, an alternative school for school dropouts and youth who had been arrested. After attending Brown University and Yale Law School, he joined the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., where for six years he represented both juveniles and adults charged with crimes.ĭuring his time as a public defender, Professor Forman became frustrated with the lack of education and job training opportunities for his clients. He attended public schools in Detroit and New York City before graduating from the Atlanta Public Schools.
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