Steven "Sparky" Czifra is an Underground Scholar at UC Berkeley and achieved his undergraduate degree there as well. Sparky was an inmate at Pelican State Prison and spent 8 years in solitary confinement. Today, Sparky is a husband and father to two children. He considers marvling at the ordinary a gift, and was interviewed by Oprah on 60-minutes about the detrimental impacts of solitary confinement in prisons.