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Reginald Dwayne Betts was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2018 NEA Fellow. He has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. He is a PhD candidate in Law at Yale and as a Liman Fellow, he spent a year representing clients in the New Haven Public Defender’s Office. He is the author of Felon.
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