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Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator and curator who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame is currently a researcher at Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. Mariame has co-founded multiple other organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Love & Protect, the Just Practice Collaborative and Survived & Punished. Mariame serves on the advisory boards of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Critical Resistance and the Chicago Community Bond Fund. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Nation Magazine, The Guardian, The Washington Post, In These Times, Teen Vogue, The New Inquiry and more. She co-authored the guidebook Lifting As They Climbed and published a children’s book titled Missing Daddy about the impacts of incarceration on children and families.  Kaba is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize from Lannan Foundation.

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  • Sojourners for Justice

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    Big news! We're honored to be working with Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani to bring Sojourners for Justice into the world!

    Sojourners for Justice Press is a micro press that opens its platform to people working experimentally with print based media, publishing short form and ephemeral zines, pamphlets, and booklets that engage do-it-yourself, black feminist, and abolitionist philosophies.

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  • Abolitionist Starter Kit

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    Abolitionist Starter Kit: five books by acclaimed abolitionist organizers and thinkers to help sharpen our analysis, ground our strategy, and deepen our commitment to collective liberation.

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