About the author

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.

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