How Filmmaking Taught Me to Advocate for Incarcerated Persons featuring Katherin Hervey

If you think having a law degree limits your creativity you
haven’t met Katherin Hervey.  Katherin has worked as a
magazine editor, a public defender, a film enthusiast, a holistic
artist, a director, and filmmaker.  


After studying cross-cultural communications, which was a
self-designed major at the University of Washington, Katherin
found that curating her own degree was her way of diving into her
interests.  Katherin was able to take women's studies
courses, ethnicity, psychology and  sociology courses which
motivated Katherin to pick up a camera.


Katherin Hervey attended law school at Loyola- Los Angeles and
later became a public defender.  Katherin found the
tradition, patriarchy, and hierarchical processes of law school
to be stifling, and Katherin rebelled against most of what she
saw in law school.  Law school inspired Katherin to wonder
about the people behind the case law and find her own way to tell
stories of others.  


Katherin’s interest in the background stories combined with her
experiences as a public defender in California motivated Katherin
to go behind the prison walls to share the stories of men on
death row. Katherin wants you to know that the stories of the men
behind the walls could be you, these men could be your brothers,
uncles, or nephews.  


Katherin used language and terminology learned from being a
public defender while appealing to the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation to gain access to the men
inside.  Katherin’s mission in filming ‘The Prison Within’
is to show the empathy of the men behind the walls; show the work
that these men are completing and showing their humanity. 
Every person is on a parallel journey to healing and these men
are not unlike the lives of those who live the outside of the
walls.


Although Katherin believes that she would have taken a creative
path regardless of attending law school, Katherin Hervey knows
that she would not have created a project like ‘The Prison
Within’ had she never attended law school. 


Learn more about ‘The Prison Within’ at theprisonwithin.org, and
watch the film ‘The Prison Within’ on Tubi, Amazon Prime, iTunes,
and Google Play.


Katherin Hervey is licensed in California.  Connect with
Katherin Hervey on Instagram @theprisonwithin.


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