Zachary Norris is the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which works to end mass incarceration and state violence and advance racial and economic justice to ensure dignity and opportunity for low-income people and people of color. Zachary founded and co-directed Justice for Families, a national alliance of family-driven organizations working to end our nation’s youth incarceration epidemic. Twitter: @ZachWNorris https://twitter.com/ZachWNorris.
Patrisse Cullors is the Director of the Truth and Reinvestment Campaign at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. She is a co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and has worked to promote law enforcement accountability across the country. She is also the founder of Dignity and Power Now, an organization dedicated to protecting incarcerated people and their families in Los Angeles. Twitter: @osope https://twitter.com/osope

OPINION: A Call for Truth and Reinvestment
Zachary Norris and Patrisse Cullors
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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