Speech from the Bridging the Gap: Amplifying Incarcerated Voices in Chicago, IL. Read by Dr. Chelsea Moore.
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Kwaneta Harris is a former nurse, business owner, and expat, now an incarcerated journalist. In her writing, she illuminates how the experience of being incarcerated in the largest state prison in Texas is vastly different for women in ways that directly map onto a culture rooted in misogyny. Her stories expose how the intersection of gender, race, and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence.
Chelsea Moore is a co-founder of Look2Justice, a nonprofit she started with her husband, Christopher Blackwell. Look2Justice is an organization that provides civic education to incarcerated people and their families while simultaneously working to transform the criminal legal system. Chelsea is now the Smart Justice Policy Program Director at the ACLU Washington state and a lecturer at the University of Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington with a focus on the criminal legal system. Her dissertation, “In Pursuit of the Pervert: Sexual Dangerousness and the Creep of the Carceral State,” examines the relationship between fears of sexual dangerousness and the expansion of mass incarceration. Chelsea sits on the Korematsu Race in Criminal Justice Task Force and the Board of Judicial Administration Alternatives to Incarceration Task Force. She is a published researcher, an award-winning instructor, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellow.
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This conference is co-organized by Look2Justice, Empowerment Ave, Institute to End Mass Incarceration, Inquest, and Haymarket Books, with generous support from ACLU National, Center for Just Journalism, Press Forward Chicago, David Rockefeller Fund, Freedom to Grow, Galaxy Gives, Jewish Currents, No More Alabama, Prison Journalism Project, Social Documentary Network, Solitary Watch, TruthOut, Unlock the Box, and Vital Projects Fund.
