Kelly Mahoney | EXPO Wisconsin

Kelly Mahoney works with a number of action teams and represents EXPO at 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 Peer Support trained and volunteers her time working as a resource for peers in her community. Kelly sits as a member of the Eau Claire Criminal Justice Collaboration Council, and is the co-chair for Jonah’s Chippewa Valley Justice Action Team. Kelly sits on a couple steering committees and advisory boards across the state. She is also a sociology major at UWEC class of 2023.

She is directly impacted by the system and wants to use her 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.”