Editorial Staff for the Spring 2022 Special Publication Project 

Healing Arts - PCC Inscape Chapbook No.6

Jasmin Lopez

Managing Editor & Web Companion Issue Editor

Jasmin “Jazz” Lopez is a PCC Student and Community Engagement Leader. She became involved with FIRST (Formerly Incarcerated Radical Scholars Team) student organization before the inception of CORE (Community Overcoming Recidivism through Education) Program in 2019. As a first-gen Chicana, her passion for education started upon her discovery of a culturally relevant curriculum. CORE has played a critical role in her leadership development. She has utilized her voice as a tool for building radical communities and collective healing, specifically for black and brown people impacted by mass incarceration. Jasmin’s goal is to transfer to UCLA and pursue Chicanx studies with an emphasis on trauma-informed care.  ​

Consuelo Rios 

Art & Photography Editor &
​Web Companion Issue Editor

Consuelo Rios is a PCC student, a F.I.R.S.T board member, and a Community Engagement Leader for CORE, an amazing program that provides support to formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students. She will be graduating this year with an AA in Sociology, and is transferring to UCR to get her BA in sociology. She plans to continue on to a Masters program and become a school counselor. Being system-impacted, and having experienced the negative stereotypes that come with it, Consuelo hopes to continue to empower students that have been affected by the prison system in any way. Working on the Healing Arts/Inscape partnership and the Healing Arts day at PCC has been a great experience for her. She loves art herself, as it has helped her get through her healing process throughout the years.

Jessica Leeth Young

Healing Arts Collaboration Fellow & Prose Editor

Jessica Leeth Young is a student at Pasadena City College and is a part of the CORE. Jessica has been able to become a CEL Community engagement leader through this program that helps formerly incarcerated students, as well as system-impacted students on campus. Jessica is transferring to Chico State University in the fall for a BA in Sociology. She then plans to pursue her master's at Pepperdine University for Clinical Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy. She is a certified Grief and Loss Facilitator and chooses to use this certification to help her community. While organizing the healing arts CORE/INSCAPE magazine project, she was able to bridge the formerly incarcerated community with PCC’s long-running Inscape Magazine.

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Jocelyn Chau-Goh

Poetry Editor 

Jocelyn Chau-Goh is a nontraditional student and a mother of three. She is a first year student at Pasadena City College who will be transferring to Cal State Los Angeles to pursue a Bachelors of Science in Public Health. She has found renewed purpose in her life to create awareness  to address the negative impact of mass incarceration and work to implement programs in the carceral system that will  break the vicious cycle of recidivism, specifically through education. As someone who has been impacted by incarceration, Jocelyn is very interested in making headway to create second chances for those impacted by incarceration. Jocelyn is a Community Engagement Leader and proud member of CORE.

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Anthony Mondragon

Associate Poetry Reader

Anthony Mondragon is student at PCC and a Core Engagement leader who loves poetry and has been formally incarcerated throughout his teen years. He is a first generation college student in his family and He has found a path to success while working on himself over the past years. Pasadena City College is his temple of faith and has guaranteed him a way out of poverty, gang violence, and police brutality. Here at PCC Core has allowed him to experience his true potential and inspire other individuals at Homeboy Industries to pursue a higher education. His goal is to become a lawyer and help create political reform and spread equity throughout the world. Anthony is transferring in the fall 2022 with a AA in Political Science.

Faculty Editor, Healing Arts Chapbook No.6,
Dr. K.E. Ogden

Dr. Ogden is humbled by the hard work, passion, and dedication of the C.O.R.E. students and is extremely proud of the quality literary journal they edited in just 10 short weeks. Thank you to all of the writers who submitted. We are honored by your vulnerability and your trust in our magazine.