THE WORKSHOP
The Workshop is a vessel for continued and deepened partnership with select members from our original interviewee community, specifically youth and those who are currently incarcerated. The Workshop’s purpose is to elevate and resource our narrators’ healing and freedom dreams through advocacy-oriented projects.
2023 Workshop Participant Spotlight:
Keith Lamar
Keith LaMar is The Healing Project’s inaugural Workshop partner. Keith is a poet, teacher, and musician who has spent over 30 years in solitary confinement on Death Row after being framed for murder following the 1993 Lucasville Prison Riot. The Healing Project has worked alongside Justice for Keith LaMar, the campaign working towards Keith’s freedom, to rally the court of public opinion in Keith’s favor.
In early 2023, The Healing Project helped secure the high profile legal firm known for winning wrongful conviction suits on behalf of the Exonerated 5 and Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter to represent Keith. In July 2023, under mounting public pressure, Governor Mike DeWine delayed Keith’s execution date from November 16, 2023 to January 13, 2027. With new counsel now in place, Keith hopes to win a retrial in State court.
With Keith’s creative direction, The Healing Project and Justice for Keith LaMar have teamed up on a forthcoming documentary, a community letter writing campaign, and a single & film entitled “Keith LaMar: SWEET”—all to raise our voices before another innocent Black man is murdered by the State.
