Sonny Kennedy

Executive Assistant

Sonny Kennedy  (she | they) is a collaborator of Freedom Lifted, tending to administrative, communicative and facilitative needs with creativity and warmth.

Sonny co-founded a timely abolitionist creative writing collaborative called Humans Beyond Boxes that operated for several years in and out of prison facilities in Michigan with the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative. Later, they collaborated with Michigan United to organize city and statewide policies that impacted previously incarcerated people. Sonny then served as executive director of the nonprofit organization Fire Historical & Cultural Arts Collaborative for over five years. They also served as the interim executive director of the Kalamazoo Poetry Festival where she connected people through the power of poetry through performances, open mics and workshops with poets in Michigan.