Dr. Terrance Hinton examines how education challenges conventional boundaries and fosters transformation in overlooked spaces, including prisons. Drawing inspiration from the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project, his talk highlights the power of shared learning experiences between incarcerated individuals and outside students. Through these interactions, Dr. Hinton illustrates how education promotes healing, personal growth, and meaningful social change in unexpected contexts. As a scholar-practitioner, Dr. Hinton’s work intersects across the criminal justice, public policy and administration field. His research and scholarly contributions have focused on topics important to the criminal justice reentry field such as education and workforce development. He has instructed, mentored and assisted over 4,000 justice impacted citizens both in and out of the prison system for reentry assistance. His contributions in the criminal justice field have been highlighted within peer reviewed journals, op-eds and magazines for corrections professionals. His work has also been featured in the Columbus Dispatch, NBC4 WCMH-TV News Columbus and WOSU Public Media Radio. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx