Yeh felt drawn to working with incarcerated youth after volunteering in junior year with the Prison Journalism Project, where she experienced a paradigm shift in how she viewed mass incarceration.
Those incarcerated in California: Black people are imprisoned at a rate of 10 times the rate of white people, with Native American/Indigenous and Hispanic people at higher rates as well.
Programs like Anouk’s offer incarcerated girls even more than a way to process their traumatic experiences in prison or jail. The experience provides them with the educational skills prison is not giving to them otherwise. Anouk said that teaching her poetry workshops and meeting incarcerated children her age have honed her sense of urgency to continue to uplift the voices society would otherwise dehumanize.
“In Hollywood or in American media, the people who are very intentional about broadcasting the stories of marginalized communities are very often from those communities themselves,” Yeh said. “As young people, we should be fighting for our stories to make it to the surface. There’s an obligation to tell these stories. Who else is fighting for us?”
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