Research

I am currently at work on two research projects.

First, I am working on a participatory action report with the Initiative for Race Research and Justice and the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership at Vanderbilt University on the impacts of school policing and the school to prison pipeline on young folks in Nashville and on what is required to build a city and a society in which young people can grow and learn without being made vulnerable to these systemic harms.

Second, I am working on a larger project exploring the political spiritualities that animate and undergird the present-day movement for a world of safety and abundance beyond police and prisons. The project considers the spiritual quality and dimensions of abolitionist organizing practices that, like religious practices, mediate the felt emergence of another world at the interstices of our own.

If My Journey Were a Book Title
Mixed media art by Derrick Quintero (1961-2021)
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution