Orlando Smith AKA O. Smith is a graphic artist and self described artivist who was born and raised in South Central, Los Angeles. His illustrative reporting has been published in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Prison Journalism Project and many other publications. Smith’s work has been featured in over two dozen exhibitions since 2017 at organizations that include Museum of the African Diaspora, Oakland Museum of California, Berkeley Art Center, and University of Derby in England. He is currently serving 8 life sentences at California’s San Quentin State Prison under the draconian Three Strikes Law.