Hakim Crampton is JLUSA's Movement and Capacity Building Specialist. Hakim is an award-winning poet, an author of eight books, and a national juvenile justice/youth violence prevention specialist and motivational speaker from Jackson, Michigan. He emerged as a prisoner rights advocate while serving a 45 year sentence for a 1991 wrongful arrest and conviction. Fifteen years later Hakim won his freedom with the assistance of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Since his release in 2006, he has been a leading activist within schools and juvenile centers across Michigan, pushing to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and help youthful offenders successfully transition into adulthood after contact with the juvenile justice system.