Mikki Norris is a co-creator, curator, and coordinator of the Human Rights and the Drug War Exhibit Project (formerly HR '95). The project is an expanding, traveling, photographic essay featuring the faces and histories of those incarcerated for first-time, non-violent drug offenses, and their families. Through these case histories, charts and statistical data, and prisoner art, poetry and personal writings, the exhibit informs the viewer of the human cost of the drug laws and the vast prison industry. Ms. Norris is the Director of the Cannabis Consumers Campaign. She is also involved in the Family Council on Drug Awareness, a public policy think tank that researches and develops material on drug-related issues. As community action co-coordinator for Californians for Medical Rights, she helped organize petitioners to qualify the California Medical Marijuana Initiative (Prop. 215) for the 1996 ballot. Ms. Norris advocates harm reduction and tolerance policies to reduce drug abuse while protecting families and civil liberties. She has traveled around the U.S. and Europe networking and speaking with hundreds of groups and individuals involved with drug policy reform. Ms. Norris is a former special education and ESL teacher with an extensive background as a peace and social justice activist.

(2001). Human Rights and the US Drug War: A treatise based on the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US Bill of Rights. El Cerrito,CA, Creative Xpressions(1998). Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's Drug War. El Cerrito, CA: Creative Xpressions.