Linda Small is the founder and executive director of Reentry Sisters, a gender-responsive, trauma-informed support organization led by and for justice-impacted women. As an abolitionist storyteller and educator, she centers the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated individuals in every aspect of her work. Linda is deeply involved in the Freedom & Captivity Project, contributing to the development of community-based courses taught by incarcerated people that explore accountability, healing, and liberation.

A Columbia University Women’s Leadership Fellow and member of the Justice Scholars Network, Linda brings both lived experience and intellectual rigor to the pursuit of justice. Her work spans public humanities, program facilitation, developing a new model for reentry, and radio advocacy as a DJ for Justice Radio. She remains committed to transforming narratives and institutional practices through abolitionist, community-rooted storytelling and education