Exhibition Advisers

Jessica Phoenix Sylvia is a formerly incarcerated abolition theorist, organizer, and writer. She organizes with www.studyandstruggle.com. You may commission her work at www.abolitionjess.org or abolitionjess1@gmail.com.

Carolyn Chernoff, PhD, is a public scholar and cultural worker based in Philadelphia. Among other things, Chernoff has worked as a professor, puppeteer, DJ, curator, and Daisy Scout leader. Her research, writing, teaching, and artwork  address everyday culture, conflict, and social change.  

Garrett Felber is an educator, writer, and organizer. He is a co-founder of the abolitionist collective, Study and Struggle, and is currently writing a biography of revolutionary anarchist Martin Sostre and building a radical mobile library, the Free Society People's Library, in Portland, Oregon.

Moira Marquis, PhD, is Senior Manager of the Freewrite Project in PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program. Previously, she organized prison books programs, taught English and history in secondary schools and literature and writing in higher education. Her academic research and writing focuses on decolonialism and has been published in Green Letters, Resilience and Science Fiction Studies. She is an editor of the forthcoming collection Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement (UGA Press 2024) and is currently working on a novel titled The Ninth Wave.