Allyson Stapleton

Ally Stapleton is a second-year student in Religion and Literature. Ally earned her undergraduate degree in English from Wheaton College and comes to Yale from work with unhoused communities in Denver, CO. At YDS and the ISM, she explores the resources that 20th and 21st-century experimental poetry provide for rethinking belonging and legibility in contexts of social exclusion. Ally works with the Yale Prison Education Initiative at Dwight Hall and at New Reach, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting housing stability for women and families in New Haven.