John Rowland (he/him) is the Organizing Campaigns Manager for ALC, working primarily on the campaigns to end long-term solitary confinement and death by incarceration sentences in Pennsylvania. He received a PhD from the University of Michigan in 2012 and has taught in numerous prisons and prison education programs, in addition to organizing in various grassroots advocacy and power-building campaigns. A member of the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration and the Human Rights Coalition, he believes in organizing that’s grounded in directly impacted people (inside and outside the walls) and also builds coalitions and broad long-term power.