About Us
Building Capacity, Creating Change
Interrupting Criminalization is a movement resource hub offering information, cross-movement networks, learning, and practice for organizers, practitioners, and advocates on the cutting edge of efforts to build a world free of criminalization, policing, punishment, and violence.
We Believe In The Power Of Communities
An initiative led by veteran Black feminist abolitionist organizers Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie, we create resources, develop containers, and weave cross-movement networks, building capacity for and with organizers and advocates working to end the growing criminalization and incarceration of women, LGBTQ, trans, and gender non-conforming people of color.
Our Team
Our organization includes co-founders Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba, four staff, and four fellows whose projects focus on interrupting criminalization in health care, supporting transformative justice and liberatory harm reduction, strengthening abolitionist journalism, and organizing with labor for abolition. IC operates virtually, with staff and fellows active in organizing communities across the United States.
Frequent Collaborators
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Dream Defenders
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African American Roundtable
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National Council
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Taller Salud
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Durham Beyond Policing
Join Us In Interrupting Criminalization
Interrupting Criminalization is entirely supported through grassroots fundraising, private donations, and foundation funding. For more information or to support our work, feel free to get in touch.