No Kids in Prison
On any given day, more than 37,000 kids are locked up. KIDS! Nearly 600 of them are 12 and under. Most of these kids have already had adverse childhood experiences and come from adverse community environments. We have a system that punishes traumatized children for their mistakes by putting them in prisons, and adding additional layers of trauma even though there are safe, effective, evidence-based alternatives to youth incarceration.
In 2019 Performing Statistics asked me to design the identity and environmental elements for a national exhibition called #NoKidsInPrison.
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- Information Design
- Brand Identity
- Websites
- Conceptual Consulting
- Posters
The Virtual Exhibition
In Winter of 2020, COVID-19 hit and squashed the idea of in-person-anything. We began working with Invisible Thread and Oblio on a digital version of the exhibition. Together we crafted an entirely new virtual experience that shares both the quantitive information about the harms of youth incarceration as well as the stories and experiences of young people who have been impacted. We reimagined my data visualizations as an animated, interactive and 3 dimensional VR-like experience.
Explore the entire virtual exhibition at nokidsinprison.org/experience.