Biography
Activist arrested December 22, 2023 during a "Forest Friday" weekly picket outside the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center ("Cop City") construction site in Weelaunee forest (South River Forest). She was one of three people collectively known as the "Weelaunee Three" charged with criminal trespass and held overnight in DeKalb County Jail before being released on December 23, 2023. In March 2025 prosecutors offered all three pretrial diversion requiring a rehabilitation course in exchange for dropping the charges.
Portrait provenance
Kyra Hanlon at the DeKalb County Courthouse on March 14, 2025. Photograph by Zoey Laird, Atlanta Community Press Collective. The source identifies Hanlon as the middle defendant wearing a purple dress and keffiyeh. Original-pixel crop from the group photograph; the available crop is low resolution (103 by 138 pixels). No upscaling, retouching or generated details.
