Tobi Jacobi is an assistant professor of composition and rhetoric and the co-director of the Center for Community Literacy in the English Department at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on community literacies/publishing and the experiences of incarcerated writers. Her scholarship is informed by composition theory, critical literacy, and feminist studies. She recently co-edited a special issue of Reflections: A Journal for Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy on prison literacy. In addition, she has also published essays on community service, learning, and activism in the writing classroom and on the ethics of university-community collaborations. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled, Word by Word: Women, Writing, and Incarceration in the United States with Dr. Ann Folwell Stanford. Her recent research focuses on understanding the complexities of moving adult literacy beyond the GED, the ethics of community-university relationships, and incarcerated women writers as activists. Through the Center for Community Literacy (http://literacy.colostate.edu/), Dr. Jacobi co-facilitates weekly SpeakOut! women's writing workshops at a northern Colorado jail, and is working to create a set of resources for use by other prison and jail writing teachers.