Halim Flowers
Halim Flowers is an American artist, writer, activist, and ambassador for Represent Justice.
In 1997, at the age of 16, Halim was charged as an adult for being an accomplice to a felony murder in Washington DC and sentenced to 40 years to life. His experiences as a child inside the DC Department of Corrections were filmed in the Emmy award-winning documentary Thug Life In DC. During his incarceration, he discovered his love for literature and the arts, and he began freestyle rapping and writing poetry. He enrolled in the Georgetown Prison And Justice Initiative to become a credit earning student at Georgetown University and served as a mentor in the Young Men Emerging unit inside of the DC DOC. In 2019, after the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA) was enacted into DC law to apply retroactively to any person that had been convicted of an offense before the age of 18, Halim was released back into society.
Since his release, Halim has worked with Kim Kardashian for her documentary The Justice Project, collaborated with Kanye West on a spoken word performance, and received the Halcyon Arts Lab and Echoing Green fellowships. He has spoken on panels at universities and conferences around the country about the impact of the arts and entrepreneurship to correct our criminal injustice system. He also started painting and recording his spoken word performances, with an album currently in production.
Visit Halim's website here, his personal Instagram page, and his art page.
Listen to the Choral Commons Podcast, where Halim was a guest, here.
In 1997, at the age of 16, Halim was charged as an adult for being an accomplice to a felony murder in Washington DC and sentenced to 40 years to life. His experiences as a child inside the DC Department of Corrections were filmed in the Emmy award-winning documentary Thug Life In DC. During his incarceration, he discovered his love for literature and the arts, and he began freestyle rapping and writing poetry. He enrolled in the Georgetown Prison And Justice Initiative to become a credit earning student at Georgetown University and served as a mentor in the Young Men Emerging unit inside of the DC DOC. In 2019, after the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA) was enacted into DC law to apply retroactively to any person that had been convicted of an offense before the age of 18, Halim was released back into society.
Since his release, Halim has worked with Kim Kardashian for her documentary The Justice Project, collaborated with Kanye West on a spoken word performance, and received the Halcyon Arts Lab and Echoing Green fellowships. He has spoken on panels at universities and conferences around the country about the impact of the arts and entrepreneurship to correct our criminal injustice system. He also started painting and recording his spoken word performances, with an album currently in production.
Visit Halim's website here, his personal Instagram page, and his art page.
Listen to the Choral Commons Podcast, where Halim was a guest, here.
