Ruth Wilson Gilmore will discuss her new book on Abolition Geographies, what abolition means, talk about how students can be involved in abolition work, and to discuss why we need human-centered approaches to rethinking our carceral systems. 

She is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.