Bianca Tylek
Executive Director

Celina Chapin
Chief Advocacy Officer

Antonya Jeffrey
Director of policy
campaigns & government affairs

Andrew Seeder
Director of Research

Nico MacDonald
Director of Communications & Marketing

CS Wright
director of finance
& operations

Loella Disto
Digital Associate

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.

Bianca’s 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.