About The Author

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Lewis Raven Wallace (he/they/ze) is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina, the author and creator of The View from Somewhere book and podcast, and a Ford Global Fellow and Abolition Journalism Fellow with Interrupting Criminalization. His 2025 book Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within was a finalist for the Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing, and his next book, Journalism as Resistance, will be out in 2027. Lewis previously worked in public radio, and is a long-time activist engaged in prison abolition, racial justice, and queer and trans liberation, and a co-founder of many organizations including Press On and the Chicago Childcare Collective. He is white and transgender, and was born and raised in the Midwest with deep roots in the South. When he's not working, Lewis spends time writing poetry, playing the accordion, and hanging out with his pig, Dogwood Daffodil.