Annie Buckley is a community-engaged artist, writer, editor, curator and the founder and director of Prison Arts Collective, which has brought arts and arts leadership training to over 9,500 people in 15 state prisons in California since 2013 with a collaborative team of students, faculty, community artists, and incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists. Buckley is a professor at San Diego State University, where she is the founding director of the Institute for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Justice. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and has an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design.