Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison from Spiegel & Grau. The book was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning original series for Netflix. Piper teaches writing to incarcerated people and is at work on a second book. She serves on the board of directors of the Women’s Prison Association and the Bay Area Book Festival, and the advisory boards of the PEN America Writing For Justice Fellowship, InsideOUT Writers, Healing Broken Circles, JustLeadershipUSA and History Studio.
2025 Inside Ideas
Moderator – Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System
