Staff & Consultants

• Jean Casella, Director
• Juan Moreno Haines, Editor-in-Chief
• Katie Rose Quandt, Senior Writer/Editor
• Valerie Kiebala, Managing Editor
• Sara Vogel, Editorial and Project Manager
• Marlies Talay, Lifelines to Solitary Project Manager
• Alexandra Rivera, Project Associate
• Kilhah St. Fort, Editorial Assistant and Social Media Coordinator
• Francisco Rodriguez, Editorial and Project Assistant
• Michael Casella, Finance Director
• James Ridgeway 1936-2021, Founding Director
• Kwaneta Harris, Victoria Law, Sarah Shourd, Contributing Writers
• Djamilah Diabate, Edward Tie, Sania Tildon, Research and Reporting Interns
• Information on Internships at Solitary Watch

Advisors

• Lois Ahrens, Director, The Real Cost of Prisons Project
• Stephen B. Bright, President and Senior Counsel Emeritus, Southern Center for Human Rights
• David C. Fathi, Director, ACLU National Prison Project
• Bonnie Kerness, Coordinator, Prison Watch Project and STOPMAX Campaign, American Friends Service Committee
• Robert King, activist and author; member of the Angola 3
• Terry Kupers, MD, MSP, Institute Professor, The Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology; clinical psychiatrist and expert in forensic mental health
• Michael B. Mushlin, Professor, Pace University School of Law
• Wilbert Rideau, journalist and author; former editor of the Angolite at the Louisiana State Pententiary
• Laura Rovner, Associate Professor and Director, Civil Rights Clinic, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
• Meryl Schwartz, Consultant; former Deputy Director of the Innocence Project
• Jeffrey St. Clair, Editor, Counterpunch
• Liliana Segura, Senior Editor, The Intercept
• Charles Sullivan, Executive Director, CURE
• Peter Wagner, Executive Director, Prison Policy Initiative

Affiliations are for identification purposes only.