Zoukis, Christopher

Christopher Zoukis, a passionate advocate of education for prisoners, is himself incarcerated in a medium-security federal prison. He teaches writing courses to fellow prisoners, and he has been aggressively pursuing an advanced education from Ohio University where he maintains a 4.0 gpa. He does not allow incarceration to waste his years or halt the progress of his life. "I may have come to prison as a confused kid who had made poor decisions," Zoukis says, "but through education, I became determined to create a better life. We can't let the past define us. We have to do something today to ma...