Kevin Light-Roth is currently incarcerated at a Washington State prison, where he works to organize the prison community around legislative bills. He is a regular contributor to the Information for a Change legislative update page on Facebook, and a member of Empowerment Avenue, a collective for incarcerated writers and artists, which facilitated the publication of this article. His writing has been published in The Progressive, The Appeal, The Hill, and The Seattle Times, among other outlets.