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Critical Resistance has a Community Advisory Board who offer insight, support, and skills to our membership, campaigns, projects, and events. We are honored to work with a group of people, both inside and outside of prison walls, that represents such a breadth and depth of movement experience and knowledge.*
Our Community Advisors are:
Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Beth Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bonnie Kerness, American Friends Service Committee
Claude Marks, Freedom Archives
Craig Gilmore, California Prison Moratorium Project
Darryl Jordan, Former Director American Friends Service Committee’s Third World Coalition
Dennis Childs, University of California, San Diego
Dolores Canales, California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement
Eddy Zheng, Asian Prisoner Support Committee
Ellen Barry, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Fahd Amed, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
Hashim Benford, Power U
Kai Lumumba Barrow, Gallery of the Streets
Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
Layne Mullet, Decarcerate PA
Linda Evans, All of Us or None
Linda M. Thurston, War Resisters League
Mariame Kaba, Project Nia and Survived & Punished
Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde
Mujahid Farid, Release Aging People in Prison
Phil Scraton, Queens College, Belfast
Ruthie Gilmore, City University of New York
Tamika Middleton
Walt Senterfitt, public health epidemiologist, Los Angeles Tenants Union, HIV Prevention Justice Alliance
Note: There are also imprisoned people on our Advisory Board, but they are not named to prevent retaliation from prison regimes.
Our Community Advisors are different than a traditional “Board” as they do not have decision-making power over the organization nor are responsible for our finances. They are a movement-building and membership-development resource for our organization that work hand-in-hand with membership and staff.
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