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Zealous

Challenging injustice
through media,
storytelling, and the arts.

what we do
THE ULTIMATE GOAL: TRANSFORMATIVE AND ENDURING POLICY CHANGE TO END MASS CRIMINALIZATION.

our work

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Zealous: Institute

We design and implement trainings, law school courses, and toolkits on media, storytelling, communications, and policy advocacy.

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Zealous: Campaigns

We support local partners to develop cutting-edge social justice advocacy campaigns that harness technology, arts, media, and firsthand storytelling strategies.

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Zealous: Support

We build relationships between journalists & public defenders, advocates, and directly-impacted people to amplify perspectives and insights.

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Zealous: Community

We forge and strengthen a wide-ranging, national collaborative advocacy tapestry between expected and unexpected allies & co-conspirators for Justice.

our latest

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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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Project: Shedding Light

State violence inside Texas county jails is kept hidden, invisible. This is a growing, digital archive of first hand accounts from those inside and their loved ones. To shed light on the routine atrocities.

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Project: Silenced

A growing digital archive of approximately 100 letters shared by people caged in solitary confinement in Michigan. An immersive arts/advocacy experience and a growing collection of art inspired by the letters.

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Campaign: Still In Prison

A campaign to topple a racist law in Oregon and free the people it imprisons.

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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: 132Calls

Cassandra Greer-Lee made 132 calls to request help to protect her husband Nick from COVID-19 in the Cook County Jail. No one answered or responded. He died. Now she is fighting to ensure no one else suffers the same fate.

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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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