🎤 A former public defender who left the courtroom to pursue music full time, danielleponder1 commitment to social justice is all up and through her latest release, Some of Us Are Brave. | unlistenmusic 👇
New York singer-songwriter Danielle Ponder has been involved in music for much of her life, but after her brother received a 20-year prison sentence due to a “three strikes” policy, she became an advocate for justice and pursued a legal career. She landed in the public defender’s office in her hometown of Rochester, first as a defense attorney and later as a diversity and inclusion officer, but she continued to write songs on the side—and she eventually chose to make music full-time.
She takes on the perspective of a Black man wronged by a racist criminal justice system on her 2020 track “Poor Man’s Pain,” partly inspired by the story of Willie Simmons, who was convicted of stealing $9 and sentenced to life without parole in 1982 under a racist “habitual offender” law.
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