public presence
here and there - a sample
Atlanta Democrats Vote to Fund Controversial Police Training Center | Time Magazine, 2023
Emory Poll: Majority of Buckhead Residents Oppose Cityhood| Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2023
Reform, Defund, Abolish: Understanding Calls To Re-Imagine The Police | Georgia Public Broadcasting/National Public Radio, 2020
Criminal Justice Office Hours with Dr. Michael Leo Owens | Criminal Justice Office Hours Podcast, 2018
Private Probation Companies | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, 2016 (yes, it’s true.)
Black and Blue - Michael Leo Owens | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
House Study Committee on Compensating Wrongfully Convicted Persons: Testimony of Michael Leo Owens, Ph.D. | House of Representatives, Georgia Assembly, 2014
Closing Commentary | “Minimizing the Collateral Damage: Interventions to Diminish the Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children," Cornell University, 2016
Why We Should Not Focus On Ex-Prisoner Reentry | “On the Outside” Symposium, North Carolina State University, 2015
Benefits for Drug Felons | The New York Times, 2013
op-eds or “thought leadership,” as they call it
Making Police Shootings More Public | Sequential Potential Comics, 2024
“Where Do Police Departments Get Their Military-Style Gear? Here's What We Don't Know” | The Washington Post, July 20, 2020
“What Gets Ex-Prisoners Politically and Civically Involved?” | The Washington Post, September 21, 2018
“’Banning the Box' Would Help People Released from Prison Rebuild their Lives” | The Conversation, August 3, 2015
“Mass Incarceration Does Injustice to Millions of American Children” | The Guardian (U.K.), August 19, 2013
“Reduce Economic Immobility” | Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 14, 2013.
“MLK Day: A ‘Day On’ for What?” | Opinion: Need to Know on PBS, January 18, 2013.
“Let My Preachers Endorse: A Modest Church-State Proposal” | Religion Dispatches, November 19, 2012
“Realities of Racial Equity” | Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 16, 2012
“Why Blacks Support Vouchers” | New York Times, February 26, 2002