Jennifer M. Kilty, PhD is Full Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. A critical prison studies scholar, her research examines criminalization, punishment, and incarceration – often at the nexus of health and mental health. She has published works on conditions of confinement, carceral segregation practices, the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure, prison education and pedagogy, and the mental health experiences of criminalized people.
Rachel Fayter, Carleton University
Rachel Fayter, PhD is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University and a part-time professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. Rachel mobilizes her lived experience of criminalization and incarceration into her academic research, teaching, and activist work, to highlight the strengths, solidarity, and resilience of criminalized people as we work towards abolitionist futures. Rachel is an active member of the Walls to Bridges (W2B) prison education program since 2014. She is also a member of the P4W Memorial Collective, the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project, and the Ottawa Transformative Justice Collective.
Justin Piché, University of Ottawa
Justin Piché, PhD is Full Professor in the Department of Criminology and Director of the Carceral Geography (Col)laboratory at the University of Ottawa. He is also Co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons and researcher with the Carceral Cultures Research Initiative, as well as a member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project and the Coalition Against the Proposed Prison. Justin is co-author of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment (Haymarket, 2024) and editor of Pain in Vain: Penal Abolition and the Legacy of Louk Hulsman (Red Quill Books, 2023).
