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About the speaker

Andy Watts is Professor of Religion at Belmont University and teaches courses in religion, ethics and human development at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He also teaches world religions and philosophical ethics at a medium-security prison in west-central Tennessee, as well as partners with a transformative justice and conflict transformation team on two units in the maximum-security prison in Nashville, including on death row.  Andy practices experiential learning methodology with his students in prisons and on Native American reservations.  He is published in academic and popular resources on these activities.  He has served on the board of a non-profit providing Associate Degree education for the incarcerated, as well as worked with community leaders in Nashville to transform communities harmed by mass-and hyper-incarceration in the United States.  

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Andy Watts, PhD, ThM, MDiv, reports that he has no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients during the past 12 months. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation.

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