Speaking
Andrea James is a sought-after speaker on abolition, criminal justice, ending incarceration of women and girls, and clemency.
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Oversight Hearing on Clemency and the Office of the Pardon Attorney, 2022
Moderator, Massachusetts U.S. Senate Democratic Candidates on Justice Reform, 2020
Andrea James Conversation with CashColorCannabis, 2022
“Reform, Solidarity, Action”
OITNB x Color of Change, 2020
Oversight Hearing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Implementation of the First Step Act, 2019
Women’s March (Washington D.C.), 2019
“Families Belong Together”
Rally in Washington, D.C., 2018
NAACP Convention Discussion on Race Relations and Criminal Justice, 2017
Media Clips
“A trajectory from slavery to what we refer to as Mass Incarceration…and more”
FOXSOUL, The Book of Sean (June 10, 2021)
“85% of currently incarcerated women, whether it’s county jails, state prison, federal prison, and immigration detention prisons are mothers”
Matter of Fact w/ Soledad O'Brien (April 25, 2021)
“As formerly incarcerated women, we believe a prison will never be a place for a woman or a girl to heal and advance her life”
Cheddar Politics, Cheddar News (March 18, 2021)
“Abolition already exists in this country”
Laura Flanders Show, PBS (December 26, 2020)
“When we reimagine our communities, instead of reimaging prisons it requires us to center women”
The Sunday Show w/ Jonathan Capehart, MSNBC (March 21, 2021)
“There was a sisterhood in that prison, I think that’s why we were able in the very early days to organize”
Punishment & Profit, The Greene Space (March 9, 2021)
"Women have been the backbone in communities most targeted by mass incarceration"
Laura Flanders Show, PBS (December 26, 2020)