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Boaz Dvir is an associate professor at Penn State University and an award-winning filmmaker. His latest documentary, "Class of Her Own," is available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and most major streaming platforms.

Tony Vick has served almost three decades of a life with parole sentence in Tennessee. He writes about captivity in the hope of contributing to the prison reform movement.

Brandon Arvesen teaches undergraduate writing at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. He is the founding editor of 3cents Magazine, a managing editor of True Magazine, and a nonfiction writer.

Brian Gilmore is a public interest attorney and poet. His latest book is ‘come see about me, marvin’.

Sean T. Mitchell is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark, and serves on the Academic Freedom Committee of the AFT-AAUP.

Moira Marquis is the co-editor of "Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement," and has worked with prison books programs for more than fifteen years.

Christina Lieffring

Alicia Simba is a public school teacher living and working in Oakland, California. Her writing has been published in Teen Vogue, Slate, and Blavity, and more.

Nell Srinath is an editorial intern at The Progressive.