Danielle Rowland

Danielle Rowland is an American Studies and Ethnic Studies Librarian at the University of Washington Bothell/Cascadia Campus Library. In recent years, partnerships with American Studies and Ethnic Studies faculty have allowed her to engage her deep personal interests in prison abolition and histories of radical resistance through her work as an academic librarian. In addition to her professional roles, she also volunteers for an organization that provides college courses for prisoners of Washington State, and facilitates workshops for the Alternatives to Violence Project at a state prison.

Denise Hattwig

Denise Hattwig is the Head of Digital Scholarship + Collections at the University of Washington Bothell/Cascadia Campus Library. She is an advocate for open access in digital scholarship and for critical praxis in archives. She works with students, faculty, and digital scholarship project teams to advance student learning and social justice work through digital scholarship, activist archiving, public- and community-based learning and research, and student knowledge production.

Magdalena Donea

Magdalena Donea has an MA from the cultural studies program at the University of Washington Bothell, and Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies at the University of Washington Seattle. She is a 2017–2019 HASTAC Scholar, a 25-year veteran of the Internet, an early web theorist, and a former political refugee. She works at the intersection of digital humanities, media theory, and archive scholarship, focusing primarily on experiences and cultural expressions of refugees, stateless persons, and incarcerated people. She has worked to restore The Warden Game, and contributed to the design and architecture of the Washington Prison History Project archive.

Dan Berger

Dan Berger is associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell and adjunct affiliate associate professor of history at the University of Washington Seattle. He is the author or editor of six books, including Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (UNC Press, 2014) and, with Toussaint Losier, Rethinking the American Prison Movement (Routledge, 2018), and writes regularly for public audiences through Black Perspectives, Truthout, and the Washington Post, among other venues. He also contributed an introduction to the new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla (UW Press, 2018).

Bruce Burgett

Bruce Burgett is dean and professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell and chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.