Kim Jackson (they/she) identifies as a settler of Scottish ancestry who grew up with poverty, is queer and lives with invisible disability. Currently they are living and working on unceded Wendat and Haudenosaunee territories which are under treaty agreement with the Mississauga of the Credit River. They work as a relational praxis artist in collaboration with poor (unwaged/unhoused/exprisoner) communities and their experience of institutional violence within the carceral continuum.
Johanne Wendy Bariteau
Wendy Bariteau (she/her) resides on the unceded territories of the Kanehsatà:ke and the traditional territories of the Six Nations – Mohawk. Wendy is serving a life sentence (second degree murder) and while incarcerated became an advocate. She is a paralegal, a Gladue report writer, consults on the Correctional and Conditional Release Act and carceral law, and lectures at multiple universities on women and gender diverse people and the carceral system. She is currently the regional coordinator for Ontario and Québec for the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. She worked on the Breaking the Cycle project and was one of the independent witnesses before the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights about violations in the correctional system. Wendy was an applicant in the Guérin v. Canada case which fought for labour rights for prisoners.
Billie Cates
Billie Cates (she/her) is a mother, abolitionist-activist and academic who located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵ wx̱wú 7mesh (Squamish), and Satilwatar/Selllwituth (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Cates identifi es as white settler from mixed class background of Mennonite heritage. Informed by an abolitionist feminist lens, Cates is engaged in radical pedagogical interventions as a liberatory praxis that shift the prisoner subjectivity from fodder for the prison industrial complex, to critical knower.
