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CELESTE FREMON is IJJ Senior Fellow for Social Justice/Digital Media, and an award-winning freelance journalist specializing in gangs, law enforcement, criminal justice and education policy. She is the creator and editor of WitnessLA.com. Her work appears in such publications as the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Ms., Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, the Utne Reader and Salon. She’s also the author of G-Dog and the Homeboys and is working on a new book, An American Family, about the life of a parolee, his wife and kids, during his first four years out of prison (based on her LA Weekly series of the same name). She is the co-director of the Homeboy Stories Project, on the Board of Directors for PEN USA, and a Pereira Visiting Writer at UC Irvine, where she teaches literary journalism as it relates to social justice. Her work has been recognized by the Los Angeles Press Club, the Western Publications Association, PEN USA, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the American Library Association.
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