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Prison Abolitionist and Feminist
About Mariam Kaba
In 2016, Mariam Kaba co-founded Project NIA, a Chicago-based abolitionist organization that pioneered restorative responses to youth violence without police or courts, shifting the focus from punishment to community accountability and healing. She helped design the first city-funded participatory budgeting process in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to funding alternatives to incarceration, directing over $1 million to grassroots groups led by formerly incarcerated women and girls of color. Her work insists that feminism must be abolitionist and abolition must be feminist, refusing to separate gendered violence from state violence, and centering the leadership of Black women and girls who survive both. Kaba’s pedagogy emphasizes ‘visionary organizing’: not just dismantling prisons but building the schools, mental health collectives, housing cooperatives, and transformative justice circles that make prisons obsolete. Her widely taught zines, like ‘Let This Radicalize You’, are grounded in decades of movement practice, not theory divorced from struggle.
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- “How did Project NIA respond when a teen was accused of assault, without involving police?”
- “What does ‘community accountability’ actually look like in practice, not theory?”
- “Why do you say ‘reform is a trap’ when people push for body cameras or better training?”
- “How do you organize with survivors of gender violence who also distrust the system?”
