Volunteers
Our volunteers come from various walks of life to give of their time and talents to assist the center as needed. We depend on them to help us accomplish our day-to-day and long-term objectives. We express our gratitude to each one of them, whether they are ad hoc volunteers or continuing volunteers.
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The volunteers listed below help us with the specific programs of ACCL.
Jesse Heines
Computer Science Intructor
Jesse M. Heines is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UMass Lowell, where he taught for over 30 years. Since his retirement, Jesse has been active in a number of civil rights initiatives, including teaching web programming to inmates at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord, NH, and mentoring an inmate pursuing a college degree behind bars at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Norfolk, MA.
Jesse has also developed a 4-part video documentary for Chelmsford local television that looks at the four phases of racism highlighted by Bryan Stevenson: slavery, lynching, segregation, and mass incarceration. For more information, please visit https://jesseheines.com
