Mensah founded the “Justice for Janis” coalition, which advocates for the city to drop charges against Mensah and educate individuals on problems within the St. Louis prison system. Since its inception, the coalition has received almost 300 petition signatures and gained the sponsorship of 20 different organizations.

Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, two members of the Central Park Five—renamed the Exonerated Five—spoke in Graham Chapel last night as the Congress of the South 40’s fall speakers.