Bianca Tylek

Bianca is the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises, a national criminal justice organization working to dismantle the prison industry and end the exploitation of those it targets. Bianca is one of the nation’s leading experts on and advocates against the prison industry.

Every year, under her leadership, Worth Rises publishes innovative research about the prison industry, including the nation’s largest dataset of corporate prison profiteers, runs successful campaigns curbing the exploitation of incarcerated people and their families, including their flagship campaigns to make prison communication free. In just three years, her work has cost the industry and its investors over a billion dollars, and saved communities tormented by incarceration millions.