Kristina Mensik

Cognoscenti contributor

Kristina Mensik is the campaigns director for the Roxbury-based National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. As an advocate, organizer, and researcher, she specializes in incarceration and political participation, and leads the statewide Democracy Behind Bars Coalition in partnership with the African American Coalition Committee (AACC) based in MCI-Norfolk.

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Reforms like mail-in voting and expanded early voting are important, writes Kristina Mensik, but they do little to redress political inequality in our democratic system. (Getty Images)

Massachusetts is not the democratic bastion you think it is

Reforms like mail-in voting and expanded early voting are important, writes Kristina Mensik, but they but do little to redress political inequality in our democratic system.

Cognoscenti

Oct 18, 2021