Full Name

Kevin Reese

Job Title

Founder of Until We Are All Free

Company

 

Speaker Bio

Kevin Reese is a key leader in the Twin Cities community, serving and utilizing his platform to make effective change. After his encounter with the judicial system, his eyes were opened to the inadequacies and injustice that permeate the system. As a result, his life’s mission is to rectify the detrimental effects of mass incarceration. One of the main ways he accomplishes this is by serving as former director of Criminal Justice at Voices For Racial Justice for over 6 years and founder of Until We Are All Free. Gifted with the talents of influential authorship and movement building, he became a recipient winner of the 2018 AWP intro Journals project for poetry published in the Hayden Ferry Review. Additionally, his writing talents have also been featured in Emily Baxter’s nationally acclaimed book We Are All Criminals . Ultimately, His work centralizes the topics of humanity, organizing, transformative movements, and ancestral visionary poetry.