Victoria Scott is a formerly incarcerated scholar graduating with her interdisciplinary baccalaureate in Justice Studies and Transformative Systems Planning with a minor in Psychology from the University of Maine at Augusta. As passionate advocate for transformative and social justice, she has been a strong proponent for the growth of the Maine Model in the Maine Department of Corrections, serving as a Teaching Assistant for The Educational Justice Institute at MIT’s inside-out philosophy courses, an inaugural fellow of The Alliance for Higher Education in Prison in one of the nation’s first paid remote work pilots for incarcerated people, as an Opportunity Scholar with the University of Southern Maine in partnership with the Center for Effective Public Policy, and as a fellow of the Colby College Justice Think Tank and facilitator for its Freedom & Captivity courses. Victoria continues her work post release and has recently accepted a position with TEJI as their Strategic Initiatives Coordinator.