Joanie Steffen
Contributor
Joanie Steffen is an abolitionist, organizer, and movement lawyer at the Institute to End Mass Incarceration (IEMI). Joan’s current work with IEMI’s Carceral Infrastructure Project supports the Building Community Not Prisons coalition to fight the construction of a proposed federal prison in Eastern Kentucky and the No New Prisons IL campaign against a $900 million prison construction project in her home state of Illinois. Joan also currently serves on the Board of Directors and Mass Defense Committee of National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Chicago, where she also volunteers as Mass Defense Committee member, Legal Observer Coordinator, and Legal Hotline Supervisor to support organizers’ right to political expression.
