Showcases
Dulce M. López
Dulce M. López is a Mexican immigrant, artivist, and strategist specializing in transnational justice, cultural policy, and public affairs between the U.S. and Mexico. Raised in a rural Indigenous community, she is a graduate student at UCLA and an alumna of UC Berkeley, dedicated to leveraging art and cultural initiatives to mobilize communities, redistribute resources, expand education, and drive policy change. With extensive experience as a communications manager, organizer, and artist, Dulce has led civic engagement and visual marketing campaigns across the U.S., Mexico, and Central America, amplifying social justice movements and directly supporting grassroots organizations. She is currently using political art to develop culture-shaping projects in rural Jalisco, connecting immigrants and diaspora communities to tackle environmental, social, and economic injustices. Rooted in the belief that cultural narratives shape policy, Dulce continues to bridge art, public affairs, and transnational collective power to create meaningful social impact.
Sie Romero
Sie Romero is a multi-media artist and prison abolitionist. Her experiences as a queer, mixed-race and system-impacted person inform her approach to creating art that seeks to interrogate and disrupt harmful systems, stereotypes and misconceptions, while honoring cultural intuition. Sie is based in East Los Angeles where they work within the project to end youth incarceration.
The Los Angeles Youth Uprising Coalition is made up of 4 organizations: Children’s Defense Fund, Urban Peace Institute, Arts for Healing and Justice Network, and the Anti Recidivism Coalition all committed to ending youth incarceration in Los Angeles County while actively building the needed infrastructure in order to ensure that reality.
Scott Langley
Scott Langley is a freelance photojournalist and visual sociologist based in New York. His documentary work spans the globe – providing images to publications, educational institutions, galleries, places of worship, filmmakers, as well as national and international organizations. His long-term project documenting the death penalty is his passion and primary focus.
Alongside his documentary efforts, Scott has been an active organizer and advocate against the death penalty since 1999. For more than 20 years, Scott has served as a volunteer Amnesty International USA death penalty abolition coordinator in a number of states, and in 2017, he co-founded Death Penalty Action, a national organization working to end capital punishment and provide visibility around executions.
In addition to organizing, Scott has worked closely with communities impacted by the death penalty, having co-founded a hospitality house in North Carolina to provide support to families of death row prisoners, and has also served as chair of the board of directors for Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing, an organization of murder victims’ family members.
Scott travels in the United States and abroad to speak about capital punishment, his experiences around executions, his work with death row families and murder victims’ families, and about his photography documentary project.
Place4Grace
The Place4Grace is a dedicated non-profit organization focused on healing families and advocating for children affected by incarceration. Our programs aim to support and reunify families of incarcerated individuals, providing crucial resources and opportunities for connection. At the heart of our mission is Camp Grace, a transformative 5-day music and art program explicitly designed to facilitate bonding between children and their incarcerated parents. With a focus on art and play, Camp Grace fosters joyful connections and emphasizes the therapeutic process of healing and emotional expression.
One of the many meaningful activities we offer at Camp Grace involves creating murals that visualize what a perfect day would look like for our campers if their parent wasn't incarcerated. The families are able to express their hopes and dreams through these vibrant artworks, allowing them to explore their feelings and share their visions in a supportive environment. It's a powerful way for them to channel their emotions and foster connections with others who understand their experiences. These murals represent the dreams and aspirations of children and their parents, depicting a world free from the shadows of incarceration—a life filled with hope, unity, and togetherness.
Maya Salameh
Maya Salameh is a 1L at UCLA Law specializing in Critical Race Studies. She is the author of MERMAID THEORY (forthcoming with Haymarket Books, 2026), HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, and the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Offing, Poetry, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, AGNI, Mizna, and the LA Times, among others. She can be found @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com.
The Remedy Project
The Remedy Project is a youth and impacted-led movement with a simple vision: every human being, no matter what crime they may or may not have committed, deserves basic humanity, dignity, and respect, for the sake of their families, our communities, and our world. By challenging, exposing, and disrupting abuse within the U.S. prison system, Remedy Project students and formerly incarcerated mentors use the administrative remedy process to aid incarcerated people. We disrupt ongoing abuse, spread awareness of their stories, and fight for an end to the human rights crisis that is the United States prison system.