Annette Price

Annette Price serves as the executive director of Grassroots Leadership, a nationally recognized Texas-based civil and human rights organization fighting to end prison profiteering and reduce reliance on criminalization through direct action, organizing, research, and public education. Annette is an African American woman, mother, college graduate, and an alumni of the criminal justice system turned activist. 

Over the past decade, her advocacy has supported those still behind bars as well as those returning home. As a fellow for the Travis County Reentry Roundtable, she helped develop policy around landlords’ use of criminal background checks, facilitated jail-to-reentry classes at a local jail, and taught writing inside Gatesville Women Prison. 

She has also serves on the board of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Philosophy and Literature Circle, a program that provides incarcerated people with exposure to the humanities and liberal arts. She holds a BS from Roosevelt University and a double MA in Professional Counseling and Substance Abuse Counseling from Grand Canyon University.