Activist and Florida Rights Restoration Coalition president is doing the work to make sure his state’s disenfranchised due to felony convictions, regain their power.
Author Archives: Chandra Thomas Whitfield
Chandra Thomas Whitfield is an award-winning multimedia journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Essence, Ebony, NBCNews.com and HuffPost. She recently completed a Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting fellowship, for which she hosted and produced In The Gap, a podcast about how pay inequity and discrimination impacts the lives and livelihoods of Black women in the American workforce. A feature story that she penned for Atlanta Magazine made the Atlanta Press Club's “Atlanta’s Top 10 Favorite Stories of the Past 50 Years” list and is also widely credited with contributing to a change in Georgia law and a teen’s early release from a 10-year prison sentence.
