Light Inside
Shedding light on the government agencies and contractors that can either protect, or deny, human and reproductive rights for people in the United States, with a focus on people who are detained and/or incarcerated under the Biden-Harris administration.
Light Inside, a campaign by Equity Forward, tracks the federal agencies, officials, and government-subcontracted organizations driving the policies and practices that affect the civil, constitutional, and human rights—including reproductive rights—of people in the United States. The campaign launch focuses on the rights of people who are detained and/or incarcerated and thus, face outsized impact and harm.
Appointees to Key Positions
Equity Forward is tracking the names of appointees to key cabinet and leadership positions that have purview over our main issue areas regarding abortion, reproductive health and justice and policies singularly impacting LGBTQIA+ communities, with a focus on the rights of people who are detained and/or incarcerated. Light Inside highlights appointees in the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
Our research team has coded each appointee with one of the below designations. These categorizations are not meant to be static but, rather, to inform expectations around appointees and the policies under their purviews, which we will continue tracking.
Green: This person has a clearly demonstrated history of advancing reproductive health, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigrant rights, and/or other human rights.
Yellow: This person has peripheral instances of involvement with efforts undermining reproductive health, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigrant rights, and/or other human rights and/or this person has developed toward a more humane framework.
Red: This person has a substantial and demonstrated history of attacking reproductive health, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigrant rights, and/or other human rights.
Category to be Determined: Initial research provided insufficient information to allow EF to apply a rating to this candidate.
NOTE: EF’s coding system is solely a reflection of the individual’s alignment with our issue areas. It is not an endorsement of the justice and immigration systems.