Maddy Clifford is a writer, musician, and educator originally from Seattle. Currently based in Oakland, she’s spent the past 10 years teaching literary arts workshops to local youth.
In 'Meet Us Quickly,' artists incarcerated at the site of one of the nation's most deadly COVID-19 reframe their experience in the US prison-industrial complex.
The multimedia creative and incarcerated youth educator on art-borne futures; "You have to know how to create, and you have to get comfortable with the hypothetical."
Last May, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a plan to close California’s state-run youth prisons, an initiative that has since been stalled. But San Francisco...