Our Team
Bianca Tylek
Executive Director
Celina Chapin
Chief Advocacy Officer
RA AVIS
Chief Narrative Officer
Antonya Jeffrey
Director of policy
campaigns & government affairs
Nico MacDonald
Director of Communications & Marketing
CS Wright
director of finance
& operations
Alice Hamblett
Policy Campaigns Manager
Loella Disto
Digital Associate
Mackenzie Jarecki
Executive Assistant
Our Founder
Bianca Tylek is one of the nation’s leading experts on the prison industry, the author of The Prison Industry: How It Works and Who Profits, and the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises.
Her groundbreaking work has brought relief to countless families impacted by incarceration and wreaked havoc on the prison industry. She leads the movement to make prison and jail communication free and has blocked financing for prison construction, challenged the malicious bankruptcies of prison healthcare providers, pressured corporations to stop facilitating death penalty executions, and so much more.
Bianca’s TED Talk has garnered 1.5 million views and her work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, NPR, The Nation, Mother Jones, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and more.