2015: My Daily Beast article, "Facebook Now a Place for Prisoners, Too," forced Facebook to chang its policy and stop removing prisoners’ Facebook pages upon a prison warden’s request. Facebook now has an independent process that investigates whether the incarcerated individual has violated its policy. NPR’s All Things Considered did a piece on this investigation. (co-authored with Dave Maas from the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
2015: “780 Days of Solitude,” selected for Best American Non-required Reading, published by Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt.
2017–2018: #LoveArmy Fellow at Dream Corps, where I worked with Van Jones and his team to write, edit, and host a podcast about divisiveness in America, Of Two Minds, produced by The Neda Nobari Foundation.
2017: Artist-in-Residence at Ragdale in Lake Forest, IL
2014–2016: As Visiting Scholar at University of California Berkeley I conducted an in-depth investigation into solitary confinement, visiting 13 prison facilities across the US and conducting over 75 interviews with incarcerated individuals in person or through intensive letter correspondences.
Self-Care Sundays, with Host Aditi Juneja, "in this conversation with Sarah Shourd, a noted activist, journalist, and playwright, we discuss how self-care can be indulgent and privileged, but how it can also be an opportunity to bolster community health that makes us all freer."