This is the story of how mathematics turned my life around. In my darkest moment, sitting in a prison cell at twenty years old, mathematics called to me and promised me a life beyond the cage I was in. This blog chronicles my journey from learning math in isolation, to publishing research papers, to my future plans and goals within mathematics. My ultimate hope is that someone, somewhere reads these words and believes that change is possible. Because change is possible.

By Travis Cunningham (with editing by Emile Dultra)

This blog series originated as a project with the Prison Math Project and is published in their newsletter.