Our Impact: 29 Years of Changing Lives

Lawrence Bartley is the publisher of The Marshall Project Inside and the host and executive producer of Inside Story, a video series investigating the criminal justice system in the US. Lawrence has served as founder and director of News Inside, the print publication of The Marshall Project that is distributed in prisons and jails throughout the US. He is also an accomplished public speaker and has provided multimedia content for CNN, PBS, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and more. Lawrence also serves on RTA’s Board of Directors.

Sean “Dino” Johnson is one of RTA’s Board Directors and the Director of Program Marketing at the Council for Unity. Working for positive change, Dino works to reduce violence in schools and communities by giving new purpose to youth searching for belonging and a sense of family.

Hector Rodriguez (“Bori”) works as a professional artist and has been recently selected as a fellow at Yale Prison Education Initiative’s College-to-Career Fellowship. Hector currently focuses on developing his professional practice in the arts and youth justice.

An artist, mother, and activist, Sammie is the Co-Founder of Mothers on the Inside which helps and empowers incarcerated women in New York State. Sammie received artist grants from Creatives Rebuild New York and New York Foundation of the Arts. With other justice-impacted individuals, Sammie recently produced a show, Sunflowers in Razor Wire, which had a successful debut in September 2023.