Teaches at University of Michigan as part of the Atonement Project. 

Raised in a middle class family in Detroit during 1980s - height of the crack endemic. Ran away from abusive home at 14, convicted to join illegal drug trade my dealers. 

Summer of 1991, Senghor shot and killed a man - was 19yrs old. Spent 19yrs in different prisons in Michigan - 7yrs were in solitary confinement. of these 7, 4.5 were consecutive. Released from prison in 2010.

- Author of book ‘Understanding Mass Incarceration’

 - Based in Urbana, Illinois 

- He has been charged with second-degree murder, passport fraud and possession of an explosive device

- He has served 6 years in High Desert State Prison for his crimes

- Known for his involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army, which was a leftist revolutionary group known for bank robberies, murders and other violence, he was a ‘fighter’ for them

- The SLA also kidnapped a 19-year-old girl who they threatened, confined to a small space and sexually assaulted and brainwashed her

Malkia A. Cyril is founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network. For more than 20 years, Malkia has built the capacity of racial and economic justice movements to win media rights, access and power in a digital age. A skilled facilitator, and passionate speaker and writer, Cyril’s articles and appearances have driven racial justice strategy on issues from the fight for an open and affordable Internet and new strategic communications approaches to the fight against mass surveillance and prison profiteers. Cyril is a Prime Movers fellow, recipient of the 2012 Donald H. McGannon Award, the 2015 Hugh Hefner 1st Amendment Award, and the 2016 EFF Pioneer Award. In addition to appearing in documentary films Outfoxed and MissRepresentation Cyril has appeared in 13^th.

Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, Stevenson has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system, especially children. He has helped achieve court decisions that prohibit sentencing children under 18 to death, or to life imprisonment without parole. Stevenson has assisted in cases that have saved dozens of prisoners from the death penalty, advocated for poor people, and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice.