Walidah Imarisha
Walidah Imarisha is a writer, educator, activist and spoken word artist. She is the author of the poetry collection Scars/Stars and co-editor of two anthologies - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements and Another World is Possible (Subway Press, 2002). She has facilitated writing workshops at schools, community centers, youth detention facilities, and women’s prisons. As part of the Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project, she traveled for four years statewide as a public scholar facilitating interactive programs on prisons and alternatives to incarceration. Walidah is one of the founders of the Human Rights Coalition, an organization of prisoners’ families with three chapters in Pennsylvania. Imarisha’s website is www.walidah.com