Author Bios

Joyce Kendrick is the Southwest Ohio co-leader of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She lives in Middletown, Ohio.

Julia Luz Betancourt is a Puerto Rican writer, journalist and mutual aid organizer based in New York.

Taylor Riley is a public health researcher and organizer with Defend the Defund in Seattle. 

BJ Last organizes with the Seattle Solidarity Budget and is a business analyst with over a decade of budgeting experience.

Angélica Cházaro is a Seattle-based writer, professor and movement participant. She organizes with the Seattle Solidarity Budget and Shut Down King County Jail coalitions.

Melanie Brazzell is a scholar, organizer and a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Their work focuses on the past, present and futures of the …

Shirley Leslie is the national development director of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization that seeks to build an international movement to end the prison-industrial complex by challenging the belief that …

Beenash Jafri is an assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies at the University of California, Davis.

Micaela Morse is an Oakland educator.

Daria Marcantonio Kieffer is an Oakland educator.