Christopher Blackwell is a Washington-based award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center, where he 45-year sentence. He has been incarcerated since 2003. Blackwell and his wife, Dr. Chelsea Moore, co-founded Look 2 Justice, a grassroots organization led by criminal legal system-impacted people that works to transform the legal system by providing civic education and empowerment programs for incarcerated people and their loved ones. Blackwell has written on his personal experience of the injustices and traumas of the system, including long stints in solitary confinement, abuse at the hands of staff, and retaliation. His work has been featured across the country in The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, HuffPost, Marshall Project, Insider, Jewish Currents, BuzzFeed, The Appeal, and many other publications.