Bianca Tylek

Bianca Tylek is the Founder and Executive Director of Worth Rises and one of the nation’s leading experts on the prison industry. As a leader in the national prison phone justice movement, Bianca has passed numerous pieces of federal, state, and local legislation to make prison and jail communication free and increased the regulation of the prison telecom industry. She has also blocked corporate mergers, influenced investor divestment, and forced the resignation of predatory corporate executives from the boards of cultural institutions. Collectively her work has revolutionized the prison telecom market and brough the industry to its knees. Bianca has also blocked financing for prison construction, challenged the malicious bankruptcies of prison healthcare providers, and pressured corporations to stop facilitating death penalty executions. Her novel strategies have wreaked havoc on the prison industry, and her work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, and more.