Jhody Polk Florida Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

Jhody Polk is a 2018 Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow and the Executive Director and Founder of the Florida Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. She also founded the first Participatory Defense Hub in Florida, a community organizing model for people facing charges, their families, and communities to impact the outcomes of cases and transform the landscape of power in the court system. She is also the director of the Alachua County Reentry Coalition and a community organizer with the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. Polk served as the central Florida organizer on the successful campaign to restore voting rights to over 1.5 million Floridians, and is a dedicated member of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, the League of Women Voters, National Lawyers Guild, and Fight Toxic Prisons.