Mik Kinkead (he/him) is a white transgender man who has worked as a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and as the Director of Prisoner Justice at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP). He currently works as the staff attorney for the Rikers Island Civil Re-Entry Project at The Legal Aid Society. In this capacity Mik provides civil legal services to reduce the collateral consequences of detention and incarceration.  He has taught a weekly Know Your Rights class for TGNCNBI people in the NYC jails since it opened 2015. Mik has also taught CLEs across the US on working with TGNCNBI people as colleagues and in prison and jail contexts and has authored or co-authored six publications on TGNCNBI people and their rights in prison and jail contexts. Mik is a member of the New York City Jails Action Coalition and the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement.