Recent Appearances
OP-ED: JOURNALISTS MUST REPORT ON PRISONS—BUT WE NEED TO PROTECT INCARCERATED SOURCES
Sources trust reporters to keep them out of trouble — and prison in many cases — in exchange for information of public interest. But what happens when the source is already imprisoned? The bottom has fallen out. The parameters are different. In prison, “trouble” is defined and punished by people who control every aspect of a prisoner’s life. In that environment, consequences exist in an ever-expanding hall of trap doors. The most consequential thing about prison is that everything has consequences.
Podcast Interviews
Coup Save America
In this thought-provoking episode of Coup Save America, Sean St. Heart sits down with Paula Lehman-Ewing to discuss her compelling profiles of racial and social justice organizations.
Breaking Bias
In Ep 185: Challenging Binary Systems & Thinking of the Breaking Bias podcast, RTR author Paula Lehman-Ewing discusses the importance of nonbinary thinking and how to develop narratives that create meaningful change.
MadPo3t Podcast
A two-part interview with Paula Lehman-Ewing that discusses social justice, the modern day civil rights movement, and the part that art plays in the rehabilitation process for incarcerated individuals.
Reviews & Writeups
Conversations: Paula Lehman-Ewing’s Vision: Reimagining Revolution for a Modern World (Hype Magazine, December 17, 2024)
Reimagining the Revolution: Paula Lehman-Ewing Explores Incarcerated Voices of Resistance (Erika Williams on Medium, December 17, 2024)
Review: Two books amplify stories of incarcerated Americans from an anti-prison perspective (San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 2024)
A well-researched beginner’s guide to a growing movement (Kirkus Review, April 19, 2024)
OP-ED: The Prison They Let You See
In October, the inaugural San Quentin Film Festival welcomed a select list of media influencers to enter the prison to attend two days of workshops as well as screenings of work by currently and formerly incarcerated filmmakers. While the festival garnered praise from its celebrity attendees and received extensive media coverage, it’s crucial to question the “model prison” narrative it presented.
Speaking Expertise
- Having examined four organizations vying for change in radically new ways, I can discuss how activism is evolving—and embracing humor.
- With the upcoming dumpster fire of an election, Paula can speak to the idea of looking beyond political solutions to societal problems.
- Paula has discussed modern abolitionist movements and the theory of abolitionist thought within a modern context.
- As a Jewish American with strong ties to the Black liberation movement, Paula can speak to the seemingly radical notion of being both anti-terrorist and anti-colonialist.