JAZZY MASON
From Chains to Change
Writer · Advocate · Voice for Transformation
A New York-born writer and advocate exploring justice, reentry, healing, and the power of transformation.
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HIGHLIGHTS
- Winner of the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize for “For Child Abuse Survivors Like Me, Prison Reactivates Familiar Trauma,” published by Truthout.
- Writer, advocate, actress, and entrepreneur.
- Advocacy work with the Women in Prison Project and the Coalition for the Homeless.
- Focused on criminal justice reform, reentry, healing, and second chances.
- Stage credits include La Paloma Prisoner with Poetic Theater Productions, Margaret in Amazing Grace the Musical, and Momma in I’ll Cry Today, Dance Tomorrow.
- Alumna of Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), a program she joined at Bedford Hills — in her words: ‘When I came home, I used the skills I learned in RTA to rebuild my life.’
- On screen as Ms. Richards in the musical film Love in a Different Key (2024).
FEATURED WRITING
For Child Abuse Survivors Like Me, Prison Reactivates Familiar Trauma
Winner of the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize.
A personal essay on childhood trauma and incarceration, published by Truthout.