| Biography | Ms. Resner is the California coordinator for Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), a national organization that works to reform sentencing laws. She organizes local public events and meetings to muster public support for changing sentencing laws. She provides information and support through correspondence to prisoners and their families, to public officials, and the media. She has lobbied in Sacramento and Washington, DC to change mandatory sentencing laws and began working on FAMM's Women's Project when she realized how many women are being target by current sentencing policy.Ms. Resner is also the co-creator , curator and coordinator of the award winning Human Rights and the Drug War (HR '95) Exhibit Project. HR '95 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. An experienced public speaker, she has spoken at dozens of conferences and forums and has been interviewed on numerous radio programs throughout the United States. She has been quoted in a variety of California newspapers about sentencing laws and how to reform them. |
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