Careers at Wren
The Wren Collective is a family-first organization that values action and risk-taking, research and evidence over instinct, and quality over egos. We are collaborative and we do not shy away from challenges or discomfort. We are unafraid to try new things and are willing to pivot away from entrenched, ineffective tactics to meet our North Star of building up healthy communities and ending our devastating reliance on incarceration.
Current Opportunities
To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to: info@wrencollective.com.
We currently do not have any open positions at this time.
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Control, Punish, Surveil: The Multi-Front Attack on Reproductive Rights
The headlines keep circling back to Trump—but we’re missing the bigger picture. This week, we’re zooming in on recent attacks on reproductive care at every level. As we’ve emphasized throughout…
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Trump’s Longing for the Days of Jim Crow
The federal government no longer prohibits contractors from having segregated facilities. If you believe this statement is a typo from a bygone, shameful era, you are wrong. President Trump made…
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Democracy Under Attack
Wren’s twice-monthly newsletter highlighting the ways the state and federal governments are undermining democracy and making us less safe.
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Messaging for Fighting Back
Wren’s regular guidance on effective messaging against the authoritarian and anti-democratic developments spreading around the country.
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Contracted to Fail: How Flat-Fee Contracts Undermine the Right to Counsel in California
California was once the nation’s leader in public defense, home to the first ever public defender’s office, decades before Gideon v. Wainwright. Today, the state is in the midst of a…
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Gideon Turns 60: Advancing the Right to Counsel for Kids in Cuyahoga County
In “Gideon at Sixty: Advancing the Right to Counsel for Kids in Cuyahoga County,” Wren investigated juvenile defense in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Wren recommends that the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court appoint…
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The Resurgence of the Death Penalty
As recently as last year, the death penalty was in serious decline in the United States. Federal and state executions were at an all time low and public support for…
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In A Democracy, Dissent Is Not Terrorism
In this newsletter, we explore how the Trump administration and state leaders are criminalizing dissent by weaponizing the DOJ, ICE, and other law enforcement tools at their disposal. We highlight…
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The President’s Plan to Lock Everyone Up
Normally, our newsletters explore how states function as laboratories for authoritarian forms of government and the federal government’s utilization of those ideas in its own power grab. Today, we take…
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