Enough: The Timothy Young Advocacy Project
UCSC My involvement - Sowing Abolition
Abolition Sowers brings together participants for weekly gatherings from February through May to maintain the physical gardens at UCSC designed by incarcerated artists. The group works side by side—planting, weeding, tending—while discussing prison abolition, wrongful conviction, and the role of art in justice work. Through this hands-on labor, participants learn garden design principles directly from Tim Young's perspective, embodied in the landscape itself.
Refusing to Forget
Timothy Young has been wrongfully convicted and confined on death row for over 20 years. In 2017, a 483-page audit revealed the lead forensic technician on his case committed fraud through evidence tampering. Yet Tim remains imprisoned.
Through collaborative art—my visual responses to Tim's poetry—we're working to expose the corruption in his case, build public support, and fight for his freedom. Art is harder to silence than words. This is my refusal to let Tim be forgotten.
Free Tim Young
I'm pursuing my MFA at UCSC's Environmental Art & Social Practice program to formalize this advocacy work. Through VAST fellowships and the program's resources, I'm creating a book and exhibition while working with Georgetown to secure legal representation for a Racial Justice Act motion. The goal: get Tim's case reopened and Tim free.