Tamar Kraft-Stolar

Tamar Kraft-Stolar is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Women & Justice Project (WJP), which works in deep partnership to advance the leadership and build the power of currently and formerly incarcerated cis and trans women to transform the criminal legal system and create a just and loving world. For 12 years before co-founding WJP, Tamar directed the Correctional Association of New York’s Women in Prison Project, where she spearheaded efforts to monitor conditions inside women’s prisons, directed policy campaigns, drafted legislation, and managed organizing efforts. Tamar has helped lead several successful campaigns, including for New York State laws that ban the shackling of incarcerated pregnant and post-partum women, protect the parental rights of incarcerated mothers and fathers, and establish alternative sentencing guidelines for criminalized DV survivors. Prior to this, Tamar coordinated the Correctional Association’s Drop the Rock campaign to repeal New York’s mandatory minimum Rockefeller Drug Laws.