Rhodessa Jones

Rhodessa Jones (born 1948) is a San Francisco-based director, teacher, writer, and political activist. She is the Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey, and best known for her work as Founder and Artistic Director of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, a performance workshop designed to uplift incarcerated women and women living with HIV in the United States and South Africa. In 2015, she was appointed as a Visiting Professor at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. From 2017 to 2020, Jones served as the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Visiting professor at Cornell University.