Ayanna Lyons is an intersectional advocate for prison reform, education, and anti-racist work. She began a career focused on being in service to others as a college volunteer for the Petey Greene Program where she tutored math and English inside of SouthWoods State Prison in Bridgeton, NJ. Post-graduation, Ayanna went on to serve for AmeriCorps NCCC across the Midwest as an advocate for energy conservation, environmental stewardship, infrastructure improvement, natural and other disasters, and urban and rural development. Here, her drive to create equitable and strength-based changes in communities grew. After serving with AmeriCorps, Ayanna came on board as a staff member for The Petey Greene Program where she oversaw volunteer tutors across Southern New Jersey, including tutors at her Alma Mater Rowan University. Now, Ayanna is a Policy Advocate for Straight Ahead, a lobbying group working to end death by incarceration and solitary confinement in Pennsylvania. Ayanna combines her degrees in Public Relations and Philosophy to help create a world where everyone's needs are met and access to justice is universal.