El Sawyer

El Sawyer is a filmmaker and social justice advocate whose personal experience with poverty and incarceration informs his international consulting and public speaking practice on the challenges of reentry, recidivism, and neglected communities. In 2014, along with Jon Kaufman, he co-founded Media in Neighborhoods Group (MING), a film company that specializes in the multi-media documentation of criminal justice issues and marginalized communities. The pair also co-directed the feature documentary “Pull of Gravity,” produced in collaboration with the Department of Justice, and established the SHOOTERS program as a vehicle to engage returning citizens in the production of short films that reflect their personal journeys through the justice system and the communities to which they are returning.