Jennifer Tilton

Historian, All Sites

Jennifer Tilton is a professor of Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Redlands, with a Ph.D. in American Culture and Anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on understanding the history of racial segregation in the U.S. and its impact on the criminal justice system, local politics, and children’s lives. She helps coordinate The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project: Documenting Black History in the IE, co-directs A People’s History of the IE, and serves as the Exhibition Chair on the board of the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California. She has taught college courses in adult prisons and juvenile and facilitates the IE Fair Chance Coalition which advocates to take barriers for people living with criminal convictions.