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Dr. Richie was a founding board member of The Institute on Domestic Violence in the African Community, The National Network for Women in Prison, and a founding member of INCITE!: Women of Color Against Violence.

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Dr. Richie is the co-author of Abolition. Feminism. Now. with Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent and Erica Meiners. Her earlier book Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women, was pivotal framing the current work to free criminalized survivors from carceral systems.

The emphasis of her scholarly and activist work has been on the ways that race/ethnicity and social position affect the experience of violence and criminalization, focusing on the experiences of Black women and gender non-conforming people.

Alisa is also a black feminist philosopher and an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA.

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She has co-founded and co-led several local and national grassroots organizations, including Survived & Punished, which advocates for the freedom of criminalized survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

She is a co-editor of the two-volume collection, Abolition Feminisms (Haymarket Books, 2022), and a special issue of Social Justice entitled, "Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence" (2012).

he’s a co-founder of Incite! and a founder of Creative Interventions, one of the partner organizations of this relaunch of the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) / Stories For Power. She has lived in many of the cities featured in this podcast series.

Each and every day, Kalei honors her mother, grandmother, and Aunty Malia Craver for their embodiment of aloha.

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Kalei is a Teaching Professor at the University of Washington, and Associate Dean of the Office for Graduate Student Success in The Graduate School and Associate Dean for Excellence and Leadership in Social Work at the School of Social Work.

Her current interests are focused on alternative justice interventions aimed at healing instead of punishment; restoration instead of abandonment.

For over 50 years, her practice and research have been dedicated to analyzing the impact of colonization, racism, and masculinity on gender violence in Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, LGBTQ, māhū, and communities of color.

A Case for Abolition and Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, and co-founded @interruptcrim.bsky.social and the In Our Names Network, and led INCITE!'s work on law enforcement violence.

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Andrea is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, and co-author of No More Police.

She has been actively engaged in anti-violence, labor, and LGBTQ organizing, and in movements against state violence and for racial, reproductive, economic, environmental, and gender justice in the U.S., Canada, and internationally since the 1980s.