Lewis Raven Wallace
Co-founder of Press On
Lewis Raven Wallace (they/ze/he) is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina, and a co-founder and co-director of Press On. He’s the author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. Lewis previously worked in public radio, and is a longtime activist engaged in prison abolition, racial justice, and queer and trans liberation. He is a frequent public speaker and trainer on topics including legacies of resistance in journalism and transforming journalism for the 21st century. He is white and transgender, and was born and raised in the Midwest with deep roots in the South.
