Critical Resistance has a Community Advisory Board who offer insight, support, and skills to our membership, campaigns, projects, and events. We are honored to work with a group of people, both inside and outside of prison walls, that represents such a breadth and depth of movement experience and knowledge.*
Our Community Advisors are:
- Andrea James, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
- Andrea Ritchie, Interrupting Criminalization
- Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Beth Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Bonnie Kerness, American Friends Service Committee
- Claude Marks, Freedom Archives
- Craig Gilmore, California Prison Moratorium Project
- Dolores Canales, California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement
- Eddy Zheng, Asian Prisoner Support Committee
- Ellen Barry, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
- Fahd Amed, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)
- James Kilgore, Challenging E-Carceration, MediaJustice
- Jason Lydon
- Kai Lumumba Barrow, Gallery of the Streets
- Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
- Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
- Laura Whitehorn, Release Aging People in Prison
- Layne Mullet, Decarcerate PA
- Linda Evans, All of Us or None
- Mariame Kaba, Project Nia, Survived & Punished and Interrupting Criminalization
- Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde
- Rukia Lumumba, People’s Advocacy Institute
- Ruthie Gilmore, City University of New York
- Tamika Middleton
- Tash Nguyen, Restore Oakland
Note: There are also imprisoned people on our Advisory Board, but they are not named to prevent retaliation from prison regimes.
*Our Community Advisors are different than a traditional “Board” as they do not have decision-making power over the organization nor are responsible for our finances. They are a movement-building and membership-development resource for our organization that work hand-in-hand with membership and staff.