April
State-sanctioned Violence &
The Carceral State
Day 1
Thursday, April 28, 2022
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Day 2
Saturday, April 30, 2022
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST
Session Guests
Kenyon Farrow is a writer and public health strategist and organizer. He is the Managing Director of Advocacy and Organizing with PrEP4All, a new national organization fighting for access to biomedical HIV prevention for all people in the United States. He is known for his work with organizations such as Critical Resistance and Queers for Economic Justice. He's also the former senior editor with TheBody.com/TheBodyPro.com, one of the leading news sites on HIV, LGBT/sexual and reproductive health. He's a contributor to the anthology, Abolition for the People, edited by Colin Kaepernick for Kaepernick Publishing, published in Fall 2021.
Alyasah "Ali" Sewell is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. They are trained as a medical sociologist, a social psychologist, and a social science research methodologist. Their areas of research are in racial inequality, structural racism, health disparities, and social attitudes. They specialize in using multilevel models to connect public policy data on housing and policing inequities with lay reports of health.
Born in Atlanta, GA to Afro and Latinx Caribbean immigrants, Ali found their voice on the spoken word stage as a young adult. They were politicized by 9/11, which occurred two weeks after they started college. A researcher at heart, they embraced Sociology as a means to sustain their childhood vision of being an artist, writer, and activist. Their mantra is: "Good times! It's all love; working on it being all justice".