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.
Board Member & Co-Founder
Bettina is an educator who teaches, writes, researches, and advocates at the intersection of racism, education, and abolition. She is the author of the book We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal.
Board Member & Co-Founder
Chelsey Culley-Love has seen many sides of the classroom, teaching a broad spectrum of learners during her 20-plus years in professional education. As a co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network, Chelsey is living in the manifestation of her dreams for a worthy learning system for our Black and Brown babies while building with educators across the country.
Board Member
David is Professor of African-American Studies and Criminology, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His work with communities, students, and teachers manifests itself in his involvement with the Peoples Education Movement, a collection of classroom teachers, community members, students and university professors in Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his duties and responsibilities as a professor at UIC, he also served as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice from 2005-2018.
Board Member
Farima is a professor of Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco (USF) in California and holds leadership roles in grassroots collectives such as the Teachers 4 Social Justice, the People’s Education Movement and the national Education for Liberation Network. She has over a decade of experience teaching at the elementary level as well as lecturing, supervising and supporting educators locally, nationally and internationally through her roles as a university professor, teacher supervisor, educational consultant and grassroots community organizer.
Board Member
Martha, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia, has worked for many years with educators and families in diverse multilingual settings, including U. S. Latino/a and immigrant communities, as well as rural and indigenous communities in México. Her focus has been on engaging with families and educators to promote equity in mathematics and science teaching and learning. Recently, she has worked with educators, parents, and children in schools in Turkey serving multilingual families with refugee status.
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