Roni is a literature project based on interviews Purva Panday Cullman conducted with Roslyn “Roz” Smith, a woman who spent 39 years incarcerated for a crime she committed as a teenager. Through creative license granted by Roz to Purva, Roni considers what the conditions of violence are, what the contours of survival look like, how beauty, ritual and care make themselves known in a life stained or stunted by trauma, and how they move a body towards healing. [Thesis available by request only.]

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Purva Panday Cullman is an organizer who has served in a range of leadership roles at community, national and international social justice organizations and movements. She has worked at the intersection of gender, culture and activism with Girls Inc of New York City, the Lower East Side Girls Club, the Ms. Foundation for Women and V-Day, the global movement to end violence against all women, girls, gender expansive people and the planet.