Our organization was borne out of frustration and a sense of overwhelming unfairness. Many of us are students studying justice and law at American University, and we found ourselves angry with the state of the criminal justice system as we learned about it in our classes. We wanted a way to truly enact change in our community and beyond. Students for a Just Society is an organization fighting for criminal justice reform in the United States by educating our peers, amplifying the work of other justice organizations, and encouraging in-depth dialogue between academics in the field, students with passion and ideas, and officials in the justice system. We hope to make complicated issues in the American justice system more accessible to the general public, so that everyone can better understand the root of the existing problems and the proposed methods of solving those problems.