Carol Jacobsen is a feminist, artist, writer, and political organizer whose nonprofit practice in film/video, photography, installation, scholarship and activism draws on long term relationships with and for freedom, human rights and alternatives to prison for incarcerated women. She is professor of Art/Film & Photography, Law, and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also the founding director of the Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project, a grassroots effort that has freed 13 women from life sentences through public campaigns, clemency, paroles and appeals with attorney partners in court. Her critical writings have appeared in scholarly, law, art, and feminist journals, and she is the author of For Dear Life: Women?s Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus, a nonprofit book published by The University of Michigan Press, 2019.