Founder & Executive DirectorWorth Rises
Bianca is one of the nation’s leading experts on the prison industry and the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises, a national organization working to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of impacted people and communities. She is a leader in the national movement to make prison and jail communication free, which has saved families more than $300 million and generated two billion additional minutes of call time to date. Bianca also leads the #EndTheException campaign to end prison slavery. She has wreaked havoc on the prison industry, blocking mergers, inspiring divestment, limiting access to capital, and removing prison profiteers from the boards of cultural institutions. Her work has cost the prison industry and its investors billions, and saved communities tormented by incarceration millions.
Bianca is an Elevate Prize Winner, and holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.