Moving public
defender advocacy
outside of court.

2019 Institute Recap

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Our Work

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Learning

Zealous Institute

We create and implement media communications, and policy advocacy trainings, original curricula, educational tools, and movement-building events.

Collaborating

Advocacy Campaigns

We launch coordinated national and local defender policy advocacy campaigns, strategic projects and partnerships, and cutting-edge new media advocacy.

Strategizing

Technical Support

We provide technical assistance to defenders and defender offices to maximize their advocacy impact.

Launching

Community-Building

We build and nurture our national coordinated community of media and movement-savvy public defenders.

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Our Mission

Zealous activates, trains, and supports public defenders, in partnership with local organizations and the people and communities they serve, to move their advocacy outside of court. Our goal is to end mass criminalization.



About Zealous

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Our Latest

Institute: National Training

The launch of the Zealous defender community. An immersive, national media and movement building training. 52 defenders, representing 42 different offices, in 27 different states.

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Campaign: Need to Talk

We produced a billboard to engage New Yorkers and the country in an urgent, nuanced conversation about what “defund the police” really means.

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Campaign: For The Sixth

A campaign to end user pay and fully fund public defense in Louisiana. The first in a series of a national education and action initiatives to make the Sixth Amendment mean something.

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Campaign: Gasping for Justice

Zealous designed a campaign with local defenders to amplify the voices of people in Prince George's County, MD jail. We didn't have cell phone footage. But we had sworn statements.

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Analysis: Police Violence

Zealous helps leverage defender perspective in local and national press. Most recently, Zealous lead a team of defenders to analyze videos of police violence for the New York Times.

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