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Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Dominican by birth and New Yorker by upbringing, he tricked himself into writing four junior papers and two senior theses en route to graduating summa cum laude from Princeton in Classics with a WWS certificate (2006; Latin Salutatory). He held the Daniel… Continue Reading
Dread Scott | Slave Rebellion Reenactment
Bernard Harcourt | The Counterrevolution: Governing Our New Internal Enemies
Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Stephanie Jones-Rogers’s research focuses primarily upon gender and American slavery, but she is equally fascinated with colonial and 19th century legal and economic history, especially as it pertains to women, systems of bondage, and the slave trade. Her first book,… Continue Reading
Brandon Vines | Race, Class, Gender, and Discipline in *The End of Policing*
By Brandon Vines “You can do what we ask you to, or you can suffer the consequences.” – Kentucky sheriff’s deputy Kevin Sumner[1] This seminar series focuses on the concept of “Abolition Democracy”—that is, the combination of the negative act… Continue Reading
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her fields of study span from the 19th- and 20th-century literature; politics of culture; feminism; Marx and Derrida; to globalization. Her most recent… Continue Reading
Kenyatta Emmanuel
Songwriter Kenyatta Emmanuel is an artist and activist who has shared his music from Sing Sing to Carnegie Hall, offering a full live concert the same day of his release after serving 24½ years in prison. His music and message… Continue Reading
Nkechi Taifa
Nkechi Taifa is Founder, Principal and CEO of The Taifa Group LLC, a social enterprise firm whose mission is to advance justice. The Taifa Group’s portfolio of client services include coalition-building, convenings, government relations, meeting and retreat facilitation, strategic planning,… Continue Reading
Barnard Prison Abolition
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