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. Written by Bianca Tylek and Worth Rises, a renowned non-profit organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry, this book reveals the economic forces that sustain mass incarceration in the U.S.

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.