As part of the University of Maryland Libraries' year-long programming accompanying the new major exhibition, Rising Up: 100 Years of Student Activism for Justice and Civil Rights at the University of Maryland, we are happy to announce Creating Liberating Spaces: Activists, Archivists, Librarians and Social Justice: A Talk with Mariame Kaba.
Mariame Kaba is an educator, organizer, and librarian who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. She is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame co-leads the initiative Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018. She has co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including We Charge Genocide, the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander (now Love & Protect), Just Practice Collaborative, Survived & Punished, and For the People Leftist Library Project.