Barnard Prison Abolition Collective (BPAC) is an organization at Columbia University. Through community education, campus activism, and direct service, our aim is to educate, organize, and serve around dismantling the carceral state and transforming how we think about justice. Facebook and Instagram: @barnardprisonabolition
Henrique Carvalho is Associate Professor at the School of Law of the University of Warwick. He holds a PhD in Law (King’s College London), an LLM in Legal Theory (King’s College London), a Specialism in Procedural Law and Legal Reasoning… Continue Reading
Karuna Mantena is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She specializes in political theory with research interests in the theory and history of empire, South Asian intellectual history, and postcolonial democracy. Karuna holds a B.Sc.(Economics) in International Relations from… Continue Reading
Katherine Franke is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, where she also directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and is the faculty director of the Law, Rights, and Religion Project. She is a member of the Executive Committee for… Continue Reading
Daniela Gandorfer is a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Cruz, working with the quantum physicist and philosopher Karen Barad, and a co-founder of the Logische Phantasie Lab, a research agency she co-directs with Zulaikha Ayub and Patricia J. Williams and that… Continue Reading
Alyssa Battistoni is a political theorist working and teaching on topics related to political economy, environmental and climate politics, feminism, and the history of political thought. She is currently an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University, and will begin a position… Continue Reading
Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years she has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. She is a living… Continue Reading
One of the longest serving death row prisoners in Alabama history and among the longest serving condemned prisoners to be freed after presenting evidence of innocence, Mr. Hinton was the 152nd person exonerated from death row since 1983. Thirty years… Continue Reading
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting… Continue Reading
Martin Saar is professor of social philosophy at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (since fall 2017). He has taught in Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig. His areas of specialization and teaching are contemporary political and social philosophy and the… Continue Reading