Visionary Aponte: Incarceration & Black Freedom

Omisade Burney-Scott

Omisade is a black, Southern, feminist mother and healer with decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and social justice. Grounded in an analysis of systems of oppression, she has trained extensively in identity politics, intersectionality, and liberatory organizing practices. Omisade sees herself as an Organizational Development Midwife, facilitating major…...

Lynden Harris

Lynden Harris is the Founder of Hidden Voices, through which she collaborates with underrepresented communities to create award-winning works that combine narrative, performance, mapping, music, digital media, animation, and interactive exhibits. During her decades of work as an artist facilitating community connections, Lynden developed the Hidden Voices Process, a participatory…...

Theresa Newman

Duke University

Theresa Newman is a clinical professor of law, co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic, associate director of the Duke Law School Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, and faculty adviser to the student-led Innocence Project. She has been at Duke since 1990 and served as the associate dean for…...

Tarish Pipkins

Tarish Pipkins, a.k.a. Jeghetto, was born in a small steel mill town called Clairton, PA, located south of Pittsburgh, PA. He is a self-taught artist and has been creating art from a very young age. As a teenager, he moved to the East Side of Pittsburgh and graduated from Taylor…...

Sherrill Roland

Sherrill Roland creates art that challenges ideas around controversial social and political constructs and generates a safe space to process, question, and share. In August 2012, when he was enrolled as an art student, Roland was issued a warrant in Washington, D.C., explaining that he had four felony counts against…...