Kelly Mahoney | EXPO Wisconsin

Kelly Mahoney works with a number of action teams and represents EXPO in many tables and organizations throughout the Chippewa Valley. She works in criminal justice reform and also in efforts to address mental health in her community. Kelly is trained in Peer Support and volunteers her time working as a resource for peers in her community. She is also a sociology major at UWEC.

She is directly impacted by the system and wants to use the knowledge she has gained through her lived experience to work towards changing our systems. She believes in creating just systems through awareness, advocacy, and policy change.

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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.”