Janaé Bonsu

Janaé Bonsu, PhD, is an activist, researcher, and licensed social worker from Columbia, South Carolina. Bonsu’s activism and scholarship are grounded in her personal experiences as a survivor of violence and familial incarceration and her commitment to an abolitionist praxis that does not rely on the prison industrial complex for safety. Bonsu earned a PhD from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is currently the director of research and advocacy at the National Black Women’s Justice Institute.