Kevin Bott
Founder and Executive Director of Ritual4Return, a community-based theater program using arts-based rites of passage to support formerly incarcerated people in healing and reintegration.
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Jul 9, 2026
Kevin BottGUEST
In 2006, I was a graduate student at NYU, and I was invited to observe a professor who was teaching a theater class inside a medium security facility in New York.
Kevin BottGUEST
And after a couple of years of volunteering for this organization called Rehabilitation Through the Arts, someone that I was working with had made parole.
Kevin BottGUEST
He was coming back to New York City, and he asked me, you know, what kinds of artistic theatrical opportunities there might be coming home.
Kevin BottGUEST
So I had, in the two years that I worked inside the prisons, not thought about what happens to people when they come home.
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Aaron TurnerHOST
from beginning to end, or really prison system, how would you change it? What would it look like if you could wave a wand?