staff

Communications Lead

Loryn is a translator and a former educator with over 15 years of experience as an organizer with communities across the US South. Her passion lies in exploring the intersections of race, gender, class, and language. She is dedicated to storytelling that ignites and fortifies resistance and to developing tools for historicizing and concretizing abolition as a theory and a practice.

Culture + Operations Director

lush is a Black queer abolitionist with a deep love for the South. They are a facilitator, songbird, speculative fiction writer, language enthusiast, and anti-capitalist auntie who believes in the magic of singing to the ocean, making wishes on dandelions, and sharing a meal with people they love. A lover of magnolia trees, big earrings, intentional relationship infrastructure, lists on lists on lists, and oxford commas, lush can typically be found searching for their next book to read, trying out new and complicated recipes, and wearing a high filtration mask.

Grant Writer

Mounica K is an educator, scientist, and community organizer. She currently coordinates and teaches in a college in prison program, working with incarcerated students who are pursuing higher education. She also organizes locally and nationally around issues of disability justice and mad liberation, prison and police abolition, encampment support, and abolishing caste supremacy. They are especially passionate about organizing fellow oppressor-caste South Asian communities to unlearn and fight against caste supremacy, hindu nationalism, and settler occupation. They are deeply committed to the liberation of Palestine, Kashmir, and all occupied peoples in global liberation struggles. Outside of community work, Mounica loves spending time with her menagerie of cats and reptiles, reading sci-fi/fantasy books, and watching bad reality TV.

Data & Research Lead

Narek is a queer Armenian-American community organizer and educator based in Atlanta, GA. They are committed to abolitionist, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist movement work.  

Executive Director

Sarah is a former classroom educator as well as an organizer/activist who has worked in fostering and supporting community centered struggles for over 10 years. Sarah is from the global and national south and finds inspiration and meaning in fighting alongside the communities they find themself in: queer people of color who are rowdy because they know they deserve more. It is the realization of the abolition freedom dream that keeps them connected and accountable to our collective liberation.