Join editors and contributors of Abolish Social Work (As We Know It) and Abolition and Social Work for a discussion about the intersections of abolitionist politics and principles and social work.
Pick up a copy of Abolish Social Work (As We Know it) here: https://btlbooks.com/book/abolish-social-work
Pick up a copy of Abolition and Social Work here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2226-abolition-and-social-work
Pick up a copy of Not Your Rescue Project here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-not-your-rescue-project
Pick up the Creative Interventions Toolkit: https://www.akpress.org/creative-interventions-toolkit.html
Moment of Truth Statement of Commitment to Black Lives: https://wscadv.org/news/moment-of-truth-statement-of-commitment-to-black-lives
Speakers:
Cameron W. Rasmussen is an educator, researcher, social worker, and facilitator. Cameron is an Assistant Professor in the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His research is focused on issues of accountability, restorative and transformative justice, and the intersections of social work and abolition. Cameron is a Co-Editor of Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes and the Practice of Community Care and is a Collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAASW). He completed his PhD in the Social Welfare program at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Craig Fortier - (they/them) is an Associate Professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo). They have been involved in community based organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans* liberation, anti-capitalist, Indigenous solidarity, and abolitionist movements. Craig is the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism and co-editor of Abolish Social Work (As We Know It). Their research is interdisciplinary, experiential, and rooted in day-to-day organizing work - including studies on colonialist memorialization projects, queer and trans* community sports, social work history, social movement organizing, and political theory. They currently reside in Tkaronto/Toronto (Michi Saagiig Nishaabeg, Wendat, and Haudenosaunee territories) and acts as a co-commissioner in the Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softball association, playing shortstop for the Don River Curse Breakers.
Durrell Malik Washington Sr. is an Abolitionist, a Social Worker, Educator and PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. His research interest lies at the intersections between P.I.C. Abolition, Juvenile legal law, policy and other youth serving systems, Black families, and Health. Durrell is a Beyond Prisons Fellow at UChicago and a collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work.
Mimi Kim is a longtime community accountability/transformative justice practitioner. As a co-founder of Incite! and founder of Creative Interventions, Mimi has challenged interpersonal and state violence through the building of community-based liberatory practice. She is currently re-launching the StoryTelling & Organizing Project through a Stories for Power collaboration between Creative Interventions and Just Practice. Mimi is also an Associate Professor of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach.
Chanelle Gallant - (she/her) is a movement writer, organizer, strategist and consultant and co-author of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (Haymarket Books, 2024). She co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project, SURJ-Toronto and has provided training and advocacy on sex work and racial justice, from city hall to the United Nations. Chanelle sits on the national board for Showing Up for Racial Justice and Catalyst Project and has...
