Nicole Morse

Nicole Morse is a co-founder of the Community Hotline for Incarcerated People (Chip) and an associate professor at the University of Maryland. Her work focuses on supporting incarcerated individuals, particularly within the context of the Covid pandemic, and she has been instrumental in advocating for the creative expressions of artists in prison. Morse has a research interest in LGBTQ+ cultural production and has collaborated with incarcerated artists to produce the hip-hop album 'Bending the Bars,' which highlights systemic issues within the prison-industrial complex.