Founding Member
Wendy is an advocate, researcher, and systems change agent who is currently serving an LWOP sentence at Central California Women’s Facility. She has been incarcerated for the last 10 years and during this time, Wendy has strived to gain insight through self-help groups such as codependency, Beyond Violence, Denial Management, Domestic Violence, AWARE, and several others. She is also pursuing her associates degree.
Through Wendy’s journey to gain insight, she learned how her core beliefs were formed and how they influenced her decisions that led to her incarceration. Wendy has used her past traumas of sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and childhood trauma to educate and encourage her peers.
In addition to educating people within her community, Wendy works with an urban school in the Bay Area where she educates the younger generation about the effects of violence, injustices within the criminal legal system, mass incarceration, and other areas in need of systemic change.
Wendy has also prided herself on gaining a voice, allowing her to advocate for people in her community that cannot advocate for themselves. She has served her community through the capacity of an Inmate Advisory Council, or IAC, representative as well as working with outside organizations such as Survived & Punished, the California Coalition for Women Prisons, and Unapologetically HERS.
Wendy looks forward to continuing her path in helping her community and inspiring positive change..
Central California Women’s Facility, Chowchilla, CA
