Africana Studies Program
AK Wright

Black Feminism Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. AK Wright(they/them) is a Jamaican first-generation healer-scholar. Their book project, Embodied Abolition: Healing Justice, Black Feminism and Ending Carcerality investigates how Black individuals communally and intimately live, resist, and care amid carceral forces. Situated in Black feminist thought, queer and trans studies, and carceral studies, their research explores communal healing justice approaches to carceral abolition.
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Education
PhD, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2022)
MA, Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2020)
BA, Women's and Gender Studies, Bates College (2017) -
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