Projects

• Aging and its Tropes

  (Columbia University)

• Community Commons

biography

Activist and organizer. Engaged in work to end prison injustice and free all political prisoners; she works on the project Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP). Laura edited The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, & Fighting for Those Left Behind by the late Black Panther political prisoner and organizer Safiya Bukhari, and her writings have been included in books edited by Joy James, Johanna Fernandez, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and others.

research interests