Gina Dent is Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has won awards for her teaching (Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award, 2019), advocacy (Chancellor’s Award for Diversity, 2007), and research (Innovator of the Year, 2023). Currently, she serves as PI and Co-Director for Visualizing Abolition, a project funded by the Mellon Foundation and designed to redirect social resources away from prisons by accessing the power of the arts. Dent is the editor of Black Popular Culture ([1993] New York: The New Press, 1998) and author of articles on race, feminism, popular culture, and visual art. Her recent projects also grow out of her decades-long work as an advocate for prison abolition—Abolition. Feminism. Now. (co-authored with Angela Davis, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie, Haymarket 2022), and the in-progress works Seeing through Stone (an exhibition catalog co-edited with Lauren Schell Dickens and Rachel Nelson) and Prison as a Border, on popular culture and the conditions of knowledge. Professor Dent has offered graduate courses and faculty seminars in black feminisms, critical race studies, critical theory and postcolonialism, and legal theory and visual culture in Brazil (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador and Universidade Federal Recôcavo da Bahia, Cachoeira), Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), and Sweden (Linköping University), as well as at the European Graduate School, and lectures widely on these and other subjects. She works with several organizations nationally and internationally, including Columbia University’s Center for Justice and Australia’s Sisters Inside, primarily on justice-related concerns. She previously held positions at Princeton University and Columbia University and was Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research at UCSC, as well as Principal Investigator for the University of California Multicampus Research Group on Transnationalizing Justice.