Julia Sudbury

Julia Sudbury is Mary S. Metz Professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College, and former Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, Equity and Diversity at the University of Toronto. She is author of Other Kinds of Dreams; Black Women’s Organisations and the Politics of Transformation (Routledge 1998), editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex (Routledge 2006) and has published numerous articles on women of color activism, globalization and the prison-industrial complex. For the past two decades, Julia has been involved in women of color and prison abolitionist movements in the U.S., Canada and the UK. She is a founder member of Critical Resistance, the Prison Justice Action Committee (Toronto) and the Arizona Prison Moratorium Coalition.