Advancing Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship since 1978
Jeffery White, Podcast Producer/Host
Jeffery (Jeff) White
Jeffery White (He/Him) is the current producer/host of The Baldy Center Podcast. As a full-time PhD candidate in Sociology at the University at Buffalo, his research examines how system-impacted students experience higher education as either an extension of or rupture from carceral systems. His scholarship extends traditional understandings of the school-to-prison pipeline by interrogating higher education as a possible site of both containment and transformation in the life course.
White is a researcher, writer, published poet, educator, and social advocate whose work examines the intersections of race, education, and the carceral state. He began his academic journey at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, studying International Criminal Justice and Human Rights, where his research explored the relationship between the U.S. criminal legal system and international human rights frameworks.
He earned his MA from Columbia University in Human Rights and Social Stratification, conducting statistical analyses of police killings of unarmed Black men and examining patterns of racialized state violence. He later completed a teaching fellowship and earned his MS in Special Education (7-12) with a concentration in Urban Education Policy from Brooklyn College.
White taught incarcerated youth at Rikers Island, an experience that shaped his commitment to dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline. He went on to serve as a secondary educator and racial equity curriculum specialist, and worked with the NYC Office of Safety and Youth Development to support culturally responsive, restorative practices in District 15.