{"id":14704,"date":"2023-05-15T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=14704"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:20:34","slug":"welcome_brian_nam-sonenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/15\/welcome_brian_nam-sonenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Brian Nam-Sonenstein!"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">div.yarpp-generated {display:none;}<\/style>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/brian_250w.webp 1x, \/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/brian_250w-2X.webp 2x\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/brian_250w.png\" alt=\"Brian Nam-Sonenstein\" width=\"250\" height=\"272\" class=\"Thumb250 right\">\n<\/picture>\n<p class=\"\">We&#8217;re excited to announce that Brian Nam-Sonenstein has joined our team as a Senior Editor and Researcher. In this role, he&#8217;ll research and write briefings and reports, and provide editing support to other members of our research team. <\/p>\n<p>\nBefore joining Prison Policy Initiative, Brian worked as a columnist and reporter for news outlets including the Portland Phoenix, Marijuana Moment, and Shadowproof, where he is a co-founder and publishing editor. He also organized the Marvel Cooke Fellowship to produce reporting by incarcerated writers. Brian is a co-host of the Beyond Prisons podcast and has been actively producing media for over a decade on issues ranging from drug decriminalization to prisoner-led organizing. His work has been published in Solitary Watch, Truthout, Prison Legal News, SF Bay View, and more. In addition to his work as a journalist, Brian served as the Director of Public Relations for NisonCo, a cannabis &#038; psychedelics PR firm. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from Wheaton College.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWelcome to the team, Brian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please welcome our new Senior Editor &#038; Researcher, Brian Nam-Sonenstein!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[90],"class_list":["post-14704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14704"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14756,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704\/revisions\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14704"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}