SARA KIELLY is an investigative journalist, poet, and jailhouse lawyer whose work has appeared in Slate, Spotlong Review, the New York Daily News, Guild Notes, and In Solidarity. As an Irish-American transgender woman incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, she works to change conditions of confinement for minority prisoners and the conversation surrounding our mass carceral state. She is invested in joining with other minority people to build a society that prioritizes equity, inclusion, and the power of minority lives.