Halim Flowers is a Washington, DC-based artist, writer, and activist. In 1997, at the age of 16, Flowers was charged in the District of Columbia as an adult for being an accomplice to a felony murder. His experience as a child inside of the DC Department of Corrections was filmed in the Emmy award winning documentary “Thug Life In DC”. Flowers was taken to trial and convicted under the accomplice liability doctrine of felony murder and sentenced to a term of 40 years to life imprisonment. While incarcerated in 2018, he co-founded the social entrepreneurial media production company Unchained Media Collective with filmmaker Kristin Adair, with the goal of disrupting mass incarceration by telling the stories of those who are directly impacted by the criminal justice system. A year later, he was released after successfully petitioning for resentencing after 22 years behind bars. Since his release, he has worked with Kim Kardashian for her documentary “The Justice Project”, received the Halcyon Arts Lab and Echoing Green fellowships, and spoken on panels at universities and conferences around the country about the impact of the arts and entrepreneurship to correct our criminal injustice system.
