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His work explores the history of social movements in the U.S., the African diaspora, and Africa, extending into research on Black intellectuals, music and visual culture, and surrealism and Marxism. Kelley is a widely published scholar, teacher, and Guggenheim Fellow. Kelley (he/him) was selected by Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation as a 2021 Freedom Scholar.

She is currently a columnist at The Guardian, a Margaret Burroughs Fellow for the Social Justice Initiative’s Portal Project at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and a Scholar-in-Residence at Columbia Law School.

Purnell has lectured, studied, and strategized around social movements across the United States, The Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Her writing has been published widely, including in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Boston Review, Teen Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Purnell co-created the COVID-19 Policing Project at the Community Resource Hub for Safety Accountability to track police arrests, harassment, citations and other enforcement through public health orders related to the pandemic. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in grassroots organizations through an abolitionist framework. Derecka Purnell (she/her) is a lawyer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom.

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