Timmy Châu

Board Member
Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project

Timmy Châu is a Vietnamese facilitator, attorney and community organizer based in Chicago. He has spent over ten years supporting and building grassroots organizations and brings extensive experience in movement strategy, policy advocacy, and organizational capacity-building.

Timmy began his advocacy working to support communities impacted by police violence as a youth organizer with We Charge Genocide and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials. He is former Executive Director of the Prison + Neighborhood Arts / Education Project (PNAP), where he worked to build inside/outside networks of mutual support and advocacy between incarcerated and free-world activists, scholars, thinkers, and artists.

Timmy is also Co-founder of Dissenters, a new, youth-led, anti-war organization. Currently, he is the Community Outreach Lead of the National Parole Transformation Project (NPTP), a network of lawyers, community-members, and advocates working toward decarceration by challenging punitive parole systems through grassroots advocacy and impact litigation housed at the MacArthur Justice Center.