Unchained Stories' mission is to amplify the voices of those most impacted by systemic injustice and mass incarceration. We’re not just telling stories, we’re also providing training and employment opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated creatives and hiring directly-impacted people on every crew, for every project.

We’re committed to disrupting traditional production models by centering collaboration, building diverse, majority-female teams and bringing transformative justice principles into our process.

About Kristin: Kristin is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia artist with a background in law and non-profit advocacy and a lifelong passion for justice work. She is deeply committed to collaborative media-making and storytelling that centers the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated people. She founded Unchained Stories with an array of creative and advocacy expertise, from visual storytelling to campaign strategy, fundraising and movement-building.

After leaving her job as a non-profit lobbyist in 2011, Kristin helped create a mindfulness and arts program for incarcerated youth. She saw firsthand the combined power of art, healing and storytelling in the juvenile justice space, and and returned to graduate school to hone her skills as a photographer and storyteller and study film production.. In 2018, she released a documentary entitled Becoming Free, which looks intimately at the experience of young adults coming home from prison after years or decades behind bars.

Kristin’s work has been featured at venues around the world, including IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, By The People Festival, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Washington Project for the Arts, Busboys & Poets, Awareness Film Festival (Los Angeles), the Women's Film Festival (Philadelphia) and the Santa Fe Film Festival, among others, and has been published by the Washington Post, NPR, Yoga Journal and numerous non-profit organizations.

She was selected for the inaugural 2017-2018 cohort of the Halcyon Arts Lab social justice arts fellowship and is currently a fellow at Echoing Green and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Kristin has a BS from Georgetown University where she graduated magna cum laude, a JD with honors from George Washington University, and an MA in New Media Photojournalism from Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.