Anisah Sabur-Mumin has been a policy advocate for the past 16 years.

She is the lead organizer for the New York Coalition of Women Prisoners, a group whose members include incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and allies. She also advises several foundations on the impact of incarceration and building leaders of women involved in the criminal legal system along with being a former prison monitoring team member. Anisah has also been instrumental in the fight to pass the HALT Solitary Confinement Act.