Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, and curator whose work focuses on racial justice, gender justice, transformative/restorative justice, ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, and supporting youth leadership development. She is a researcher and activist in residence at the Interrupting Criminalization initiative at the Barnard Center for Research on Women; the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration; and co-founder of multiple organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander (now Love & Protect), and Survived & Punished, among others. Mariame is also a member of the Just Practice Collaborative and is on the advisory boards of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Critical Resistance and the Chicago Community Bond Fund. She runs the Prison Culture blog.