Alesha Judkins currently serves as the Mississippi State Director of Criminal Justice Reform for FWD.us. She began her career in criminal justice in 2008 as a Justice Fellow with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), followed by serving as advocate with the Southern Poverty Law Center where she remained until joining FWD.us in 2019. Throughout her career Alesha has worked with incarcerated people and their families in a variety of capacities. She believes that in the words of Bryan Stevenson, “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”