Christal Arroyo | EXPO Wisconsin

Christal Arroyo Roman is a directly impacted organizer for EXPO’s Milwaukee chapter and a paralegal. Having earned her paralegal degree while incarcerated, Christal uses her experience with sentencing adjustments to assist those impacted by the criminal justice system. She believes her experience is her voice to advocate and uses her this lived experience to help directly impacted woman find their voice in order to restore their dignity and build them up into being productive leaders in the community. She is a strong supporter of Criminal Justice Reform.

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People in our communities without direct experience with incarceration are often ill-informed of the negative, and catastrophic, effects on earnings and employment, physical and mental health, housing and education, and family well-being created and perpetuated by the carceral system. Through our advocacy work in local and state government, EXPO creates space, opportunity, and support for system-impacted individuals to raise their voices about the systemic and institutional harm of the incarceration. In the words of one of our organizers, EXPO’s work “shines a light of awareness and truth where others refuse to acknowledge.”