Haremos esto hasta liberarnos: Organización de la abolición y transformación de la justicia

About 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 childrens 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. Tamara K. Nopper is a sociologist writer editor and data artist whose research focuses on the racial and gender wealth gap financialization criminalization punishment and the social impact of technology with a particular emphasis on alternative data and credit scoring. A Fellow at Data for Progress and an Affiliate of The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies Noppers scholarship and writing have appeared in numerous academic publications as well as in The New Inquiry Jacobin Truthout and Verso Books Blog. She researched and wrote several data stories for Colin Kaepernicks Abolition for the People series.