![]() ![]() “ Becoming Abolitionists is ultimately about the importance of asking questions and our ability to create answers. Named a Kirkus Reviews “Best Book of 2021” Derecka is currently a columnist at The Guardian, a Margaret Burroughs Fellow for the Social Justice Initiative’s Portal Project at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law School. Her work and writing has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, The Appeal, Truthout, Slate, and many other publications. She received her JD from Harvard Law School, and works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training to community-based organizations through an abolitionist framework. Derecka Purnell presents “Becoming Abolitionists.”ĭerecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, writer, and organizer. ![]()
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