About Us
Judy Van Wyk is an award-winning television producer with nearly thirty years of experience as a visual storyteller. Throughout her career, she’s taken special interest in how people navigate their lives – the internal forces that drive people to respond as they do to their given circumstance. Judy received her BA from the Ohio State University in Dance and African Dance Ethnology and her MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri- Columbia.
Her work as a volunteer at Orange Correctional Center inspired her to create a podcast giving voice to people who are too often invisible - the vast majority of incarcerated individuals who are returning to our communities from prison.
Judy Van Wyk
April Barber
April Barber served 31 and a half years in prison. She was 15-years-old and pregnant when she was first incarcerated. In 2022, April had her sentence commuted by Governor Cooper – one of the first commutations from the Juvenile Sentencing Review Board. Today, she works as a peer support specialist at Freedom House and a powerful advocate for those still incarcerated. Through her business, Fenced In - Fighting for Freedom, she provides resources and shares her journey as a published author and public speaker.