Join artist, educator, and writer Dr. Kim Wilson for an in-person event to discuss her book, We Grow The World Together, co-edited with Maya Schenwar. This remarkable collection of essays includes contributions from some of the most influential abolitionist theorists and movement organizers. The essays illuminate the ways in which caregiving and struggles for liberation intertwine, offering both transformative ideas and practical tools for building new worlds even in the direst of circumstances. 

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PRESENTERS
Kim Wilson is an artist, educator, writer, and organizer. She is the cofounder, cohost, and producer of Beyond Prisons, a podcast on incarceration and prison abolition. A social scientist by training, Dr. Wilson has a PhD in Urban Affairs and Public Policy, and her work focuses on examining the interconnected functioning of systems, including poverty, racism, ableism, and heteropatriarchy, within a carceral structure. Her work delves into the extension and expansion of these systems beyond their physical manifestations of cages and fences, to reveal how carcerality is imbued in policy and practice. She explores how these systems synergize to exacerbate the challenges faced by under-resourced communities, revealing a deliberate intention to undermine and further marginalize vulnerable populations.

Stephanie D. Keene is a Philadelphia-based educator, creator, and organizer. Her justice work focuses on abolition (including but not limited to the prison industrial complex). She has 20 years of experience educating and organizing communities around justice issues. Stephanie aims to contribute towards a world where all organizing energy can be used to sustain what is built rather than resisting what gets in the way of building. In the meantime, she contributes her passion and skills to facilitate growth and connections and helpus get to a place of greater compassion and capacity to care for ourselves and each other. Stephanie is an avid learner and the grateful mother of a bright beam of light. A proud graduate of the first HBCU, Lincoln University, she is working for the freedom of all people.