My life’s work is about dismantling punitive approaches to health. That work did not begin in academia or in my professional life as a public health practitioner. It began much earlier, in my adolescence, when in ninth grade, I came home from school to find that my house had been raided by the FBI. What followed was nearly a decade of watching my father move through a legal battle that would eventually send him to prison. That experience changed my family in ways I still stru