Kempis Songster (he/him), also known as Ghani,  is a legal worker, organizer, and powerful public speaker. He served 30 years of a death by incarceration sentence in Pennsylvania after being sentenced as a child. Ghani is a founding member of Right 2 Redemption and the Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration and former staff member of the Amistad Law Project in Philadelphia. He now serves as the Restorative Justice Program Manager for the Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project.