SARAH SHOURD
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Theatre Work
  • ​Global Investigative Journalism Network: "Using Theater—and Zoom—to Tell Stories of Investigations into Solitary Confinement"
  • Kenneth Rainin Foundation: Future IDs at Alcatraz: Creating Space For Second Chances [VIDEO]
  • VICE: “The Woman Who Turned 410 Days of Solitary in Iran into a Play”
  • KQED: “Inside ‘The Box’: New Play Explores Life in Solitary”
  • BANG: “Oakland Writer-Activist Tells Story of Solitary Confinement” 
  • SF Examiner: “’The Box’ Vividly Looks at Life in Solitary”
  • Democracy NOW: “Opening the Box”: After Being Jailed in Iran, Sarah Shourd Examines Solitary Confinement in U.S.”
  • KTVU Talks to Sarah Shourd About Her Play "The Box" [VIDEO}

Public Appearances
  • 2020: Giving Incarcerated Women the Tools to Save Their Own Lives: Pulitzer Center Zoom Webinar with Rhodessa Jones
  • 2016: Sarah Shourd Community Hero Award Recipient​
Hell Is a Very Small Place
  • 2016: “America’s Invisible Inferno,” by Martin Garbus
  • 2016: Publisher’s Weekly, “PW’s Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2016.” Selected by Heather Ann Thompson. 
  • 2015: Kirkus Review, Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
  • Capital Public Radio: “Sarah Shourd Follow Up: Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement.”

Solitary Confinement and Mass Incarceration
Appeared on The Oprah Show; met with President Obama, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, President of Iraq Qubad Talabani, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon; worked closely with actor Sean Penn, linguist Noam Chomsky, and musicians Cat Stevens, Boots Riley, and Tom Morello.
  • 2015: The Brain with David Eagleman | The Effects of Solitary Confinement | PBS
  • 2013: Aljazeera, Former Political Prisoner Defends Chelsea Manning
  • 2013: Huffington Post, Former Detained U.S. Hiker Sarah Shourd Speaks out Against Immigration Detention
  • 2011: Interviewed on BBC’s Hardtalk
  • 2011: Amnesty International In Conversation with Sarah Shourd
  • 2011: National Sierra Club Interview with Sarah Shourd 
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