The 2024 Artist-in-Residence is Dr. Caroline Young. Dr. Young is  a poet and educator living in Athens, Georgia. A Lecturer in the University of Georgia English department, she also serves as Site Director for Common Good Atlanta’s higher education program at Whitworth Women’s Facility in Hartwell, Georgia. 

Teaching in incarcerated spaces since 2017 has transformed her pedagogy: "It calls into service my full range of experience and skills, enforces my eagerness to keep learning, and affirms the necessity of creating safe spaces in any learning environment.”  Dr. Young fosters ongoing conversation between her UGA and Whitworth student classrooms through community-facing writing and art collaborations.  

Dr. Young is a 2024 Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award recipient from the University of Georgia. In 2023 she received the prestigious Silver Medal Award from the Southeastern Museums Conference for her curated exhibit “Art is a Form of Freedom.” The exhibit was a collaborative effort between Dr. Young, the women of Wentworth Prison, the Department of Corrections, Alumni of the nonprofit Common Good Atlanta, and the Georgia Museum of Art.