Her research centers on racialization, sexualities, embodiment, girlhood, and cultural production ranging from hip hop to visual and performance art.Aileen Hongo is a geriatric social worker who has facilitated creative therapy and healthy aging workshops for older adults in California prisons since 2006. Creative arts provide a therapeutic means of coping with the despair, depression, and trauma of incarceration for the most vulnerable population behind bars.Rachel Hoppenstein and Ann Marie Mantey are occupational therapists who, during their final semester of graduate school, created a movement based program for women in prison. Both women practice yoga as an art form to express creative energy.