Reverend Isaac I. Scott is a Multidisciplinary Visual Artist, Journalist, and Ordained Minister, who created Isaac's Quarterly, a socially concerned faith-based company to provide and foster culturally representative aesthetics. Isaac has an Associates degree in computer networking technologies from Taylor Business Institute and a Bachelors degree in visual arts from the School of General Studies at Columbia University. Isaac is formerly the Associate Pastor of God’s Touch Healing Ministry, currently serves as a Community Partner minister at Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church, NYC, serves on the U.S. Prisons Program Advisory Council for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and has founded a consulting ministry to enhance the community engagement efforts of faith-based initiatives.
Rev. Isaac is the Chairperson for the Human Services Committee for Manhattan Community Board 11, which advocates for community equity for East Harlem, El Barrio, Spanish Harlem, Randall’s Island, and Ward’s Island.
He is currently a Justice in Education Scholar at Columbia University and spearheads the promotion of justice reform and community enhancement through the transformative power of the arts. Rev. Isaac has written as a Columnist for the Columbia Spectator and his research at Columbia investigated social and institutional methods of dehumanization in the justice system and the role of art and popular media to decrease punitive triggers in the US criminal justice system and foster community enhancement.
Rev. Scott's passion for equal human rights runs deep, and comes as a result of being directly affected by the criminal justice system and its disenfranchising nature. Through The Confined Arts, Pastor Scott has applied a strategic arts engagement methodology to criminal justice advocacy by organizing public art projects, online art exhibitions, poetry performances, and storytelling projects to interrogate and bring about awareness around the intersecting pathways to incarceration. As a result of the impactful charitable work of The Confined Arts, Pastor Scott receives foundation support and has been awarded a historic 5 consecutive Change Agent Awards from the School of General Studies at Columbia University.
He is currently a Justice in Education Scholar at Columbia University and spearheads the promotion of justice reform and community enhancement through the transformative power of the arts. Rev. Isaac has written as a Columnist for the Columbia Spectator and his research at Columbia investigated social and institutional methods of dehumanization in the justice system and the role of art and popular media to decrease punitive triggers in the US criminal justice system and foster community enhancement.
Rev. Scott's passion for equal human rights runs deep, and comes as a result of being directly affected by the criminal justice system and its disenfranchising nature. Through The Confined Arts, Pastor Scott has applied a strategic arts engagement methodology to criminal justice advocacy by organizing public art projects, online art exhibitions, poetry performances, and storytelling projects to interrogate and bring about awareness around the intersecting pathways to incarceration. As a result of the impactful charitable work of The Confined Arts, Pastor Scott receives foundation support and has been awarded a historic 5 consecutive Change Agent Awards from the School of General Studies at Columbia University.
