Lewis Raven Wallace (they/ze/he) is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina. He’s the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity (University of Chicago Press, 2019), and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. Lewis was the 2022-2024 Abolition Journalism Fellow with Interrupting Criminalization, a 2021 Ford Global Fellow, and a 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2019, he cofounded Press On, a southern movement journalism collective, and he was also a proud cofounder of Black and Pink Southwest Ohio in 2014, the Chicago Childcare Collective in 2007, and Riot Youth, Michigan’s first youth-run space for queer teens, in 1999. When he’s not working, he plays the accordion, writes poetry, and spends time with his pitbull named Frankie and his potbellied pig, Dogwood Daffodil.