Kevin Bott, PhD, is a community-based theater artist and scholar whose interests lie at the intersection of healing, justice, and movement-building, as well as in the mutually supportive relationship between individual excellence and collective creation. Bott is the founder and artistic director of Ritual4Return, a 12-week rite of passage program intended to support formerly incarcerated people transition home from prison. He is the 2019 A Blade of Grass-David Rockefeller Fund Joint Fellow in Criminal Justice. He lives in Lambertville, NJ with his wife, three kids, and two cats.