Select Writing

• Truthout: The Death Penalty Is Always an Atrocity, Not Just for the Wrongfully Convicted (Sept 2024)

• Self Published: Rememory & Reconning: A Reflection on James Baldwin (Aug 2024)

• Vera Institute of Justice: Diversion Programs Are a Smart, Sustainable Investment in Public Safety (Apr 2022)

• The Appeal: More Black Representation on Police Forces Will Not Solve Police Violence (Mar 2022)

• Truthout: Police-Led Youth Programs Don’t Actually Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Jan 2022)

• Blavity: We Have Another Day To Begin Again (Jan 2021)

• Blavity: Why I Believe We Must Redefine Our Meaning Of Justice (Aug 2020)

• Black Youth Project: Police-Free Schools Are Necessary, As Is Abolishing The White Supremacist State They Are Rooted In (Jun 2020)

• Medium Politics: Felony Disenfranchisement Suppresses Black and Brown Communities and Undercuts Our Democracy (Jul 2020)

• Medium: Police-Free Schools Are More Important Than Ever for Ending the School-To-Prison Pipeline (Jun 2020)

• Medium: There Is a Role for Everyone in this Constant Struggle for Justice (Jun 2020)

• Medium: A Usable Past? A Critical Race Theory Examination On History for Education Reform (Jun 2020)

• Medium: The Role of the Federal Government in K-12 Education: From Equality to Equity (Apr 2020)

• Medium: Does Every Vote Actually Count? (Nov 2018)
  
  
  

Publications

• Vera Institute of Justice: Diversion Programs, Explained // Website and Fact Sheet (Apr 2022)

Profile Write-Ups

• Juvenile Law Center: Meet Leadership Prize Winner, Tom Grisso (Apr 2022)

• Juvenile Law Center: Meet Leadership Prize Winner, Dorothy Roberts (Apr 2022)

• Juvenile Law Center: Meet Leadership Prize Winner, Cyntoia Brown Long (Mar 2022)

Media Mentions

• NJ Spotlight News: Diversion Not Incarceration By Bobby Brier (Dec 2022)

  The goal of diversion is to keep people struggling with mental health issues and substance abuse out of jail or from being sent back to jail

Impact Reports

• 2022 Spring Break & Summer Opportunity Youth Grants Impact Report — Community Organizations throughout Knoxville that received the Spring Break or Summer Opportunity Youth Grants (SBOYG/ SOYG) created opportunities serving as a first line of defense for Knoxville’s Opportunity Youth, reminding communities that its Opportunity Youth —primarily Black, brown, and low-income children—deserve the opportunity to safely play and have fun alongside other children as a means of preventing violence. (Download)

• 2022 Youth Violence Prevention Week Grant Impact Report  — Awareness of youth violence is key so communities can better support young people throughout Knoxville, in turn helping them exist in healthy, thriving spaces to be the engaging, productive individuals we hope for them to be. It is critical for the City of Knoxville to make sure we are engaging our young people, listening to them, creating pathways for them to be involved, and elevating not only the issues that are important to them but also the experiences that are impacting them every day. It is also important that we work with community-based organizations that are on the ground working with young people and their families each day. These types of engagement are what make YVWP so critical to addressing violence in the City of Knoxville and beyond. (Download)