Gary Kinsman was a founder of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee in 1981 and is a member of NPPC and Q4P.Rinaldo Walcott is a writer and scholar working on Black diaspora culture and politics and the author of On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition.May Ela is a queer Palestinian lawyer involved in many community initiatives and is one of the co-founders of Indigenous Land Defence Across Borders, a coalition that organized a joint Palestinian-Indigenous delegation to Palestine in 2018.Kusha Dadui came as a refugee from Iran 31 years ago. They are a Transmasculine Muslim person of color who has worked with the Trans community particularly refugee youth for over 20 years and is passionate about abolition.
Harsha Walia is a Canadian activist and writer based in Vancouver. She has been involved with No one is illegal. She is the author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism and Undoing Border Imperialism.Andrea J. Ritchie (she/her) is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor living in the U.S. who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades. Andrea is the author of Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies and Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Colour.Stephanie Leitch is a queer Caribbean writer and activist. Her work has explored the social determinants of health, structural violence, racial and gender inequalities, xenophobia and police brutality. Prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, Stephanie organised and supported various protests in support of the ‘Morvant 3’ and local BLM efforts in Trinidad and TobagoBeverly Bain is a Black queer radical revolutionary and activist scholar. She is the founder of Scholars Strike For Liberation and co-founder of No Pride in Policing Coalition
