Norris Henderson is the founder and Executive Director of both Voices of the Experienced (VOTE) and Voters Organized to Educate. Norris is a former Open Society Foundation (OSF) Soros Justice Fellow and in 2018 served as the Statewide Campaign Director for the Unanimous Jury Coalition, a ballot campaign that ended non-unanimous juries in Louisiana. As someone who was wrongfully incarcerated for 27 years, Norris shares firsthand experience of racism and brutality of the criminal justice system with communities of color across Louisiana. He was a jailhouse lawyer and a co-founder of the Angola Special Civics Project in prison. Since his release in 2003, Norris has applied his 27 years of self-taught legal expertise and community organizing skills for impactful change.