Award-winning journalist and author of five books, including the best-seller The Prisoner’s Wife. She is a senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance. She is co-author of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.
Special guests Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe and more came together to celebrate 30 years of Democracy Now! at a sold out Riverside Church event in NYC on March 23, 2026.