Dee Deidre Farmer is a legal expert and consultant, regarded as a trailblazer in the criminal justice and prison reform communities. As a teenage transwoman, Ms. Farmer was convicted of fraud crimes and received an inconceivable 50-year term of imprisonment. Insisting on being able to continue with her transition and being respected as a transgender prisoner, Ms. Farmer became a jailhouse lawyer, advocating for herself as well as others. Despite endless transfers from one federal prison to another, placements in segregation, and assault, she was undeterred. Among her seminal achievements, Ms. Farmer successfully sued prison officials after being brutally beaten and raped at knifepoint by a male prisoner serving a life sentence. The landmark suit claimed that prison officials knew placing a teenage transwoman in a maximum-security penitentiary would expose her to an unreasonable risk of sexual assault. Ms. Farmer fought the case singlehandedly up to the United States Supreme Court. The case, Farmer v. Brennan, is a unanimous decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that established that prisoners have a right to be protected from harm and that prison officials are responsible for their safety. Cited by thousands of courts, Farmer v. Brennan was foundational to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. For almost 20 years following her Supreme Court victory, Ms. Farmer worked tirelessly as a jailhouse lawyer, peer educator, and prisoner advocate. She has assisted over a thousand inmates with their cases—civil and criminal. She has also aided their family members and friends. Never shy about reaching out to lawyers and other professionals in the community, Ms. Farmer has formed relationships with lawyers, law firms, law professors, law schools, legal organizations, community-based centers, advocates of the rights of LGBTQ persons, journalist and experts in the field of medicine and psychiatry as well as criminology (who have been sometimes been referred to as “The Dee Farmer Family.”) Ms. Farmer brings “The Family”,” her decades of learning, and experience as well as her unwillingness to be idle while others are being mistreated to Fight4Justice. Ms. Farmer is currently at student at Penn State World Campus. Ms. Farmer serves as the Executive Director of Fight4Justice.