Matt DelSesto is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Engagement Lab.  Matt’s research as a sociologist has focused on topics related to environmental justice, community-led design and social innovation, prisons and reentry, and higher education pedagogies. In addition to more than a dozen publications in academic journals on these topics, his bookDesign and the Social Imagination(Bloomsbury, 2022) explores relationships among design, social innovation and the social sciences in the founding of sociology and the present.  Matt previously taught in the Sociology Department at Boston College and Parsons School of Design at The New School, and he has worked in a wide range of prison education programs for nearly 15 years. Most recently he developed an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program at Boston College where he taught a series of courses that brought together groups of campus-based and incarcerated students to study topics related to restorative justice at a local prison. Matt has also been lead organizer for the Ecologies of Justice Network which hosted two national conferences on environmental justice and sustainability interventions in the context of mass incarceration. He is currently leading an editorial group from this network that is producing a book to be published by Rutgers University Press.