Join us for an evening with the author of The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits, a groundbreaking exposé that uncovers the vast network of corporations and government entities profiting from incarceration.

Noel Nickle, Executive Director, NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, will moderate a discussion with Bianca Tylek, author and Executive Director, Worth Rises, and Rev. Philip Cooper, Founder, Operation Gateway, to unpack the financial incentives driving mass incarceration and explore how we can disrupt them. This event offers an opportunity to learn more about how the carceral system profits at the expense of marginalized communities and explore the transformative work of Worth Rises and our partners.

Bianca Tylek is one of the nation's leading experts on the prison industry and the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises, a national non-profit dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches. She leads the movement to make prison and jail communication free and has blocked financing for prison construction, challenged the malicious bankruptcies of prison healthcare providers, pressured corporations to stop facilitating death penalty executions, and so much more. Bianca's 2021 TED Talk has garnered 1.5 million views, and her work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, NPR, The Nation, Mother Jones, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more.