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Frontend Developer (UX/UI): Design the Web Experience for a Prison Justice Lab
ORGANIZATION: SAN QUENTIN SKUNKWORKS
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San Quentin SkunkWorks is a prison-based innovation lab where incarcerated people lead powerful work in justice reform, gaming, media, policy, and reentry. We’re building a new website to amplify that work-and we need a mid-to-senior level frontend developer with a designer’s mind to help bring it to life.
In this role, you’ll help shape the user experience of our site from the ground up. Working alongside our graphic designer and storytelling team, you’ll design wireframes, create intuitive page flows, and build accessible, beautiful frontend code.
This isn’t corporate UX. This is experience design as advocacy. You’ll be helping incarcerated changemakers reach funders, journalists, families, and partners through a digital platform that reflects their dignity, leadership, and vision for change.
Your work will include:
- Designing wireframes, flows, and navigation with empathy for a diverse audience
- Translating our visual identity into working HTML/CSS/JS
- Prioritizing accessibility, mobile experience, and clarity
- Collaborating with outside staff and incarcerated leadership via digital handoffs
Ideal skills:
- Strong frontend development (HTML/CSS/JS; bonus for React or SSGs)
- Experience with UX/UI design or wireframing tools (Figma, Sketch, Whimsical, etc)
- Commitment to justice, equity, and honoring the voice of incarcerated people
Availability of 5-8 hrs/week for 2-3 months
We can’t offer a corner office or kombucha on tap. But we can offer the chance to help change how the world sees incarceration-and who gets to lead.
Let’s build something that can’t be locked up.
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About SAN QUENTIN SKUNKWORKS
Location:
1 MAIN ST, #484, SAN QUENTIN, CA 94964, US
Mission Statement
San Quentin SkunkWorks is a nonprofit innovation lab founded inside prison by incarcerated people. We’re not here to fix broken systems--we’re here to redesign them. Our mission is to unite the leadership and ingenuity of incarcerated changemakers with professionals on the outside to transform the justice system from the inside out. Every project we launch--from restorative gaming to AI-driven sentencing reform--is driven by real-world impact and radical collaboration. We believe incarceration can be a launchpad for growth, not a dead end. Our values--compassion, integrity, justice, and audacity--aren’t just words. They’re the blueprint. Volunteering with us isn’t about service. It’s about joining a team that’s building what’s never been built before. From behind bars, we’re shaping a future that works better for everyone.
Description
SkunkWorks started as a bold idea inside San Quentin: what if incarceration could become a launchpad for change? Founded by incarcerated people and built in partnership with outside professionals, we’ve grown into a nationally recognized innovation lab inside prison walls.
Our goal is simple but radical: transform the justice system by centering the leadership of the people most impacted by it. We design and test scalable solutions-then push to bring them beyond the walls.
Our programs include Transformative Gaming (which brings over 150 people together monthly to change prison culture), RighteousReview (an AI-powered tool to uncover bias in sentencing), and Chiaroscuro (a large-scale art initiative to reclaim prison spaces with color and beauty).
We’ve been featured on the front page of the LA Times and are backed by CDCR. But our biggest achievement? Building a movement where incarcerated people lead-and the world listens.
CAUSE AREAS
Advocacy & Human Rights,
Computers & Technology,
Justice & Legal
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
1 Main StreetSan Quentin, CA 94964
(37.9429 ,-122.48058 )
DATE POSTED
May 27, 2025
SKILLS
- Website Programming
- Website Project Management
- Web Design / UX
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 4-6 hours a week for 2-3 months. After the site is live, we’d love your support for 1–2 hours/month as needed—though this is optional and totally flexible.