Thursday, February 5, 2026 | 6:00 p.m.
Temple University, Student Activity Center Room 207
1755 N. 13th St., Philadelphia, PA

Sheena King’s Submerged: On Healing from Abuse While Navigating a Lifetime of Imprisonment (PM Press, 2025), is a raw, harrowing memoir anchored in revolutionary and transformative love. Join us to celebrate the release of Submerged, which offers essential insights for all who want to understand and participate in the growing movement for alternatives to incarceration.

Sheena King is presently serving a life without parole sentence at SCI Muncy in Muncy, PA, where she is an advocate for incarcerated women, with degrees in religious studies and Christian counseling. She is the published author of a book of poems and journal entries titled UnHeard Soul and 3Sum. Her poems and essays have been published in journals including Let’s Get Free, Daughters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Peace and Justice Newspaper, Prison Health News, Centers for Wisdom, and Tenacious. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including International Library of Poetry, and Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States.

Panelists will include Rikeyah Lindsay, a Black woman, mother, organizer from Down Da Bottom (Mantua, West Philadelphia). She is an environmental, survivor, restorative, and transformative justice facilitator, and trainer. She is a former healing justice organizer for Straight Ahead of the Abolitionist Law Center and current cofounder of the Village Restoration Project.

Hosted by TUCSA, GEC, and the Village Restoration Project.