I am a freelance opinion writer and my lived experience of being incarcerated informs my work. I was the first incarcerated person to have a regular byline in a publication outside the prison. That column, named Prison Diaries, is now an award-winning blog. I have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Reuters, US News and World Report, among other publications. I was a 2017 John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Criminal Justice Reporting Fellow, a 2017 Journalism and Women Symposium Emerging Journalist Fellow, a 2018 JustLeadership USA Leading with Conviction Fellow and a 2018 Pretrial Innovation Leader with the Pretrial Justice Institute.