ARTICLES FEATURING PASTOR ISAAC
Harlem Council Rep Clashes With Community Board Over NYPD Funding
By Nick Garber, Patch Staff Aug 20, 2020 7:04 pm
As a Community Board 11 member Pastor Isaac Scott chose to focus his contribution to this article by explaining how language and appropriate representation of advocacy requests can become a barrier within a communities with respects to the resources that would be advantageous to that community.
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Only 14 Percent Of State Prison Inmates Have Been Tested For COVID-19, Raising Risks Of Large Outbreak
BY GWYNNE HOGAN, WNYC JULY 30, 2020 10:12 A.M.
Pastor Isaac Scott holds up signs 'Cuomo Let Them Go' and 'No Death Camps in NYS' during a vigil organized by justice reform advocates and local faith leaders in response to the recent death of New York State inmate Leonard Carter in front of the Queensboro Correctional Facility.
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Calls for Governor Cuomo to release vulnerable prisoners due to coronavirus pandemic, 2020
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Howard Sherman: Artists must learn the truth of the stories they tell, 2019
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A Liberal Arts Education in Prison, Columbia Spectator, 2016 (LINK EXPIRED)
Uzeum 2016 Guest Contributor, by Olivia Manson, 2016 (LINK EXPIRED)
-Interview with Isaac Scott, Resident Artist and Justice in Education Scholar at Columbia’s Center for Justice, Columbia Earth Institute, 2016
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-Isaac’s Scott’s testimony before the NYC Council Youth Services Committee, 2016 (LINK EXPIRED)
Isaac Scott mentioned in New York Time article on Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta \
-From an ‘Undocumented’ Boyhood to a Doctorate, 2015
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Article written about Isaac Scott
-The Turn of the Key by Phoebe Magee, 2015(LINK EXPIRED)
Isaac Scott featured in Article and Video -Justice-in-Education Initiative Transforms the Lives of Current, Former Prisoners, 2015 (LINK EXPIRED)
Article written about collaboration with Artist Gregory Sale in partnership with the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project
-Rapsheet to Resume 2015
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A Liberal Arts Education in Prison, Columbia Spectator, 2016 (LINK EXPIRED)
Uzeum 2016 Guest Contributor, by Olivia Manson, 2016 (LINK EXPIRED)
-Interview with Isaac Scott, Resident Artist and Justice in Education Scholar at Columbia’s Center for Justice, Columbia Earth Institute, 2016
CLICK HERE
-Isaac’s Scott’s testimony before the NYC Council Youth Services Committee, 2016 (LINK EXPIRED)
Isaac Scott mentioned in New York Time article on Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta \
-From an ‘Undocumented’ Boyhood to a Doctorate, 2015
CLICK HERE
Article written about Isaac Scott
-The Turn of the Key by Phoebe Magee, 2015(LINK EXPIRED)
Isaac Scott featured in Article and Video -Justice-in-Education Initiative Transforms the Lives of Current, Former Prisoners, 2015 (LINK EXPIRED)
Article written about collaboration with Artist Gregory Sale in partnership with the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project
-Rapsheet to Resume 2015
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Youtube: CLICK HERE
WORK EXAMPLES
- In 2019 Isaac was appointed to Manhattan Community Board 11 on the nomination of City Council Bill Perkins.
- 2019 Change Agent Award recipient. In its 2nd year this award is given to a very select group of GS students who have made outstanding contributions through their dedication to equity, inclusion, and social justice to the School of General Studies and the Columbia University Community.
- In 2018 Isaac Scott and Haydee Lee Scott received the Joe Manns Black Wall Street Award for Entrepreneur Leadership
- In 2018 Isaac was ordained as a Minister of the Lord by Dr. Rev. Mable Elliot and is currently the Associate Pastor at God's Touch Healing Ministry.
- In 2018 Isaac presented Field Notes on Justice and Practice on behalf of the The Center for Justice at Columbia University at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- 2018 Change Agent Award recipient. In its inaugural year this award is given to a very select group of GS students who have made outstanding contributions through their dedication to equity, inclusion, and social justice to the School of General Studies and the Columbia University Community.
- In 2017 Isaac presented at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site in Philadelphia and the Open Engagement Conference in Chicago about The Confined Arts program and on the impact of art in changing the narrative of incarceration.
- In 2016, Isaac testified multiple times before the New York City Council’s hearing committee on issues related to the advancement of alternatives to incarceration.
- In 2016, Isaac contributed his prison experience as an Inmate Grievance Representative at a Symposium in Beacon, NY, which was a result of the death of Samuel Harrell at the hands of NYS Correctional Officers.
- In 2016 Isaac Scott visited Washington, D.C. to contribute his prison experience as a father with young children at his time of arrest, to a discussion about children of incarcerated parents. Sponsored by Patrick Baker author of "My Father is in Prison," This Discussion was in the 7th Ward, where Isaac had the opportunity to witness poverty in a different part of the country.
- In 2016 Isaac Scott was featured as a panelist on a symposium following Ava Duvernay’s documentary 13th that took place at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Isaac highlighted the importance of language in relation to the dehumanization of people who have criminal justice involvement.
- In addition to teaching art with Columbia, Isaac also teaches visual arts to ATI (Alternatives To Incarceration) mandates at the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES), and ProjectArt.
- Since 2015, Isaac has been given a number of awards and acknowledgements, all including City, State and Local initiatives.