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  • What I do: My work is to end mass incarceration and dismantle what is known as The New Jim Crow system, which is the legal discriminatory policies and practices against people who have been impacted by the criminal legal system. For example, in certain states like Florida, someone who has been convicted of a felony charge may lose the right to vote for the rest of their lives. Voting disenfranchisement is a legacy that dates back to the Jim Crow era, which has evolved into mass incarceration and the New Jim Crow. In short, I am working to abolish what is known as the carceral system, which includes jails, prisons, ice detention centers, police, and other punitive apparatuses. Simultaneously, I am working to replace those systems with healing, restorative, and transformative institutions and community programs.   
  • Who do I do it with: My work will be first and foremost with the over 70 million people in the United States who have a criminal conviction. Next it will be with their families, because when a person is impacted by the criminal justice system it also impacts that person’s family.   
  • How do I do it: Following the model of my first political home JustLeadershipUSA, the work will consist of three components: Leadership, Advocacy, and Membership. 
  1.  The leadership component is t will organize with first and foremost incarcerated & formerly incarcerated people to build power by developing their leadership through training to enhance their advocacy, organizing, fundraising, and management skills.
  2. The advocacy component is the launch of campaigns like the campaign to #CLOSErikers-buildCOMMUNITIES to shutter and divest from brutal and dehumanizing jails and prisons, then invest into communities that have been impacted by mass incarceration. Furthermore, I will advocate for policies to dismantle New Jim Crow practices in work, housing, and education.
  3. The membership component is to build a base from among the seventy million people who have criminal convictions in the United States.
 
  • The roles that I and others play: My role is a social and criminal justice activist, advocate, and organizer. Sometimes I have to put my activist hat on and support the work of marginalized people who are fighting against oppressive systems like patriarchy and imperialism. At other times I have to organize people who have a interest in transforming our legal punishment system. I will always be advocate to transform our current criminal (in)justice system whenever I am not in either of the above roles.
  •  ​Core values consecrated in action: Social Justice,  Diversity, Community, Collaboration