Corinne Shanahan is an anti-carceral organizer and advocate based in Minneapolis. She joined the Institute to End Mass Incarceration in 2025 following her graduation from Harvard Law School. At IEMI, Corinne leverages her experience in student organizing, criminal law, and independent media as a policy fellow focused on prison journalism. She first joined IEMI as a clinical student in the spring of 2024.
Corinne went to law school to join the movement for abolition after working in a prison town. During law school, she was active as a student organizer in local and global solidarity movements, including the student movement for Palestine. She was on the board of the Harvard Law chapter of National Lawyers Guild, Justice for Palestine, Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory, and the Labor and Employment Action Project.
Corinne also has over a decade of experience in independent radio, and is passionate about building community radio stations that remind us that we are “not finally and irrevocably dead” (Lorenzo Milam).