This book has been written by four activist-scholars, with unique collective experience in the social movements which led to and combine within abolitionist feminism : Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. An activist, writer and lecturer, her work focuses on prisons, police, abolition and the related intersections of race, gender and class.
She is the author of many books, from Angela Davis : An Autobiography to Freedom is a Constant Struggle. Gina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture and lectures and writes on African diaspora literary and cultural studies, post-colonial theory and critical area studies.
Her current project, Visualizing Abolition, grows out of her work as an advocate for transformative and transitional justice and prison abolition. Erica R. Meiner is Professor of Education and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. She is the author of several books, including For the Children ? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State. Berth E. Richie is Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies, Sociology, Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Her most recent book is Arrested Justice : Black Women, Violence and America's Prison Nation.