How Kim Kardashian became a champion for criminal justice reform

• She is visiting the White House Thursday for a roundtable on criminal justice reform with Vice President Kamala Harris, Axios first reported.
• Four of the 16 people granted clemency by President Biden's administration earlier this week will also participate.
• Kardashian previously expressed outspoken support for some of former President Trump's reforms, praising them during the 2020 election campaign.

State of play: Kardashian became a vocal activist for criminal justice reform via meetings with policymakers, a podcast and a documentary — mostly spotlighting individual cases.

• "I wish I had paid attention sooner," Kardashian told Time in 2020.
• She said she doesn't view prison reform as political.

Flashback: Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman serving a life sentence without parole for a nonviolent drug offense, in 2018, following pressure from his meeting with Kardashian on the case.

• Jared Kushner, former White House senior adviser and Trump's son-in-law, led an effort to highlight prison reform, which focused on nonviolent offenders.

Zoom out: "Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project," a documentary, was released in 2020 and focused on Kardashian's advocacy in individual cases, including Johnson's.

• The documentary shows Kardashian's care for reform based on the emotional nature of individual cases, Variety critic Daniel D'Addario wrote in 2020.
• "It's obviously not sustainable to alleviate the mass crowding of America's prisons solely by appealing for clemency for specific prisoners," D'Addario wrote.

Go deeper: Scoop: Harris to host Kim Kardashian at White House to highlight Biden pardons

Editor's note: This story has been updated with a new photo.