Missy “MJ” Hart is an artist and abolitionist born and bred in North Fair Oaks, Redwood City, California, and is a gang member turned activist, after growing up criminalized, institutionalized, and surviving the horrors of the criminal injustice system. MJ is the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Underground Scholars Program at UCSC after recently earning their B.A. in Psychology, with a minor in History of Consciousness. MJ strives to put their knowledge into action, organizing with various grassroots movements in their hometown, surrounding communities, and beyond—advocating for real systemic changes, radically watering the seeds of the revolution, while pushing that hard line to collectively heal the hood.

Dr. William Armaline is the founding Director of the Human Rights Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences [SISS] at San José State University. His formal training spans sociology, education, and human rights. As an interdisciplinary scholar and public intellectual, Dr. Armaline’s interests, applied work, and scholarly publications address social problems as they relate to political economy, environmental sustainability, racism and anti-racist action, critical pedagogy and transformative education, inequality and youth, mass incarceration, and drug policy reform.

RWC Jail Support is an autonomous (self governing) collective supporting people getting released from SMC Jails (ramaytush ohlone territory). RWCJS is a volunteer effort based on the model of solidarity not charity.