Maya Schenwar

Maya Schenwaris director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism andboard president atTruthout. She is the coauthor (with Victoria Law) ofPrison by AnyOther Name: The Harmful Consequences ofPopular Reforms>and the author ofLockedDown, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Workand How We Can Do Better. Maya is also thecoeditor (with Joe Macare and Alana YuLan Price) ofWho Do You Serve, Who DoYou Protect? Police Violence and Resistance inthe United States, and has written forThe New York Times,The Guardian,TheNation, and numerous other publications. Maya is a cofounder of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and organizes with the Love & Protect collective.She lives in Chicago with her partner, child, and abolitionist cat.