About me
James "Jimmy" Soto is a community organizer, artist, prisoner advocate, writer, and future JD candidate. He was wrongfully convicted and was released after serving 42 years. He is a paralegal at Northwestern University Pritzker's School of Law in the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic. He is a Community Justice Fellow and Practitioner at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC). He volunteers for Parole Illinois, Walls Turned Sideways (WTS) and is the founder and director of a Campaign called # Build Communities Not Prisons which aims to close prisons and advocate for early release initiatives.
