James (Jimmy) Soto was exonerated after 42 years of incarceration. He is a human rights advocate and earned his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Prison Education Program. Jimmy was also an active member of the Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project's Think Tank, which explores long-term sentencing practices in Illinois and nationwide. Jimmy is a paralegal with Northwestern Law School's Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic, a research assistant with Northwestern’s Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group, and a justice fellow with the University of Chicago’s Beyond Prisons Initiative. He is the founder and director of the #BuildCommunitiesNotPrisons campaign, and he plans to go to law school next year.