We’re thrilled to announce a new step forward in how we connect with you and share our story. Andrés Pérez Correa has joined our team as our first full-time, in-house digital media manager, a role created specifically to bring you more engaging, meaningful and timely content across our social media, website and email.
Andrés is passionate about building genuine conversations and ensuring everything we share reflects our mission and values to keep you informed, inspired and connected to the impact you support.
“This new role is a gamechanger for us,” says Jena Croxford, Communications and Culture Director. “Andres brings a huge amount of talent, fresh energy, and connection to our team that will help us tell our collective stories in new and powerful ways.”
Please join us in welcoming Andrés to the team!
Meet Andrés
Prison Society: Tell us about your background and what makes you suited for this work.
Andrés: I have always been passionate about using visual storytelling and media to advocate for social causes that I am passionate about. I have been a graphic designer and marketer for five years and have worked with a range of small and large grassroots organizations. In my work, I make an effort to ensure all of our media is working in tandem with one another to tell the larger story about who we are. Aside from my tactical knowledge of digital media, design & marketing, I am personally aware of the impacts of the carceral system being a child of immigrants and with loved ones who have been incarcerated. Additionally, during my undergrad, I delved into the complex history of our prison industrial complex, its design and saw how the Prison Society could fit into this. I’m excited I get to merge a lot of who I am and what I am passionate about to work here.
Prison Society: What attracted you to the Digital Media Manager role at the Prison Society?
Andrés: This role felt like the perfect blend of not only my skills with marketing, social media and graphic design but my passion for criminal justice reform. We have such unique access to prisons as the Prison Society being able to shed light on aspects of prisons that most people are not aware of. I have the unique role of working alongside all of our teams to help shed light on their work and their findings for you! Ultimately, I am excited about what stories I can share with you all in an effort to promote the health, dignity and safety of incarcerated individuals and their loved ones.
Prison Society: What are you most excited about in your new role?
Andrés: I am so excited to get to work with such amazing colleagues and be able to elevate their work to you in unique and creative ways. I want to really take the Prison Society’s digital presence to another level (especially with video content).
Prison Society: As someone new to the organization, is there anything you've observed about the Prison Society or Pennsylvania prisons and jails that you think everyone should know?
Andrés: There are a lot of processes that people may not realize are intense barriers to incarcerated people and their loved ones – from accessing healthcare in prisons to visiting loved ones. They are also constantly changing, so it makes it difficult for people to know what is and is not allowed.