Tyler Foster is a Memphis, Tennessee-based law student, community organizer, and formerly incarcerated advocate for criminal legal reform. Once a “jailhouse lawyer,” he now attends the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law on a full-tuition scholarship, where he is a Humphreys Law Fellow and the co-founder and president of the Transformative Justice Initiative.
Tyler is also heavily involved in nonprofit leadership. He serves as the vice president of the Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope (MICAH) and on the boards of the Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network (FICGN) and Impartial, Inc. He frequently writes and speaks about the criminal legal system, and his work has been featured in USA Today, Yahoo News, The Tennessean, The Daily Memphian, The Commercial Appeal, and more.
Before law school, Tyler worked as a community organizer and as a criminal defense paralegal. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Memphis, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies. By combining his lived experience and professional expertise, Tyler seeks to build a future where justice is rooted inequity, dignity, and collective liberation.
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