Tiheba Bain is the founder and executive director of Women Against Mass Incarceration, a nonprofit organization that supports and advocates for justice-involved women and girls. A motivational speaker, Bain played an integral role in passing 2018 legislation that established new protections for incarcerated women in Connecticut. She sits on the Women’s Commission of Health and Safety and the African American subcommittee of the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity in Connecticut. She also participated on the State Collateral Consequences Task Force and served on the mass incarceration subcommittee for Governor Ned Lamont’s Transitional Policy Committee.
Bain was inducted into the Connecticut Hall of Change for her exemplary work in the community. She has spoken at Columbia University, Yale University, UCONN, John Jay College, the Connecticut Public Defender National Conference and IMRP’s Annual Building Bridges Conference.
While obtaining her dual undergraduate degree in psychology and in women and criminal justice, Bain co-wrote a chapter of the book Race Education and Reintegration. She is also a graduate of the Heyman Center for Humanities’ Justice-in-Education Scholar program at Columbia University.
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