Atlanta resident Richeda Ashmeade, a law student and poet, was 12 years old when her father was jailed on cannabis charges, sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 22 years.
It was difficult to grow up with a parent in prison, Ashmeade writes in a letter to President Joe Biden, noting that she’s beaten the odds by becoming “educated, ambitious and empathetic,” which she considers “an act of defiance” in the face of her circumstances.
Ashmeade stars in an emotional PSA from McCann New York, dubbed “The Pen to Right History,” that aims to pressure lawmakers and galvanize the public around criminal justice reform.
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