sports journalist Tamryn Spruill posted on change.org. She appealed to the White House for my release. The Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) would later join that appeal. “We ask that you take action today—doing whatever is necessary—to bring Brittney Griner home swiftly and safely,” read the plea. I didn’t know it, as I sat cut off from the world in my cell, but that petition went viral, with more than four hundred thousand signatures.
