Angélica Chazaro

Angélica writes, organizes, and teaches about immigration, abolition, and the carceral state. She worked as an attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, representing immigrant survivors of violence. Angélica has organized in Washington State with La Resistencia to end immigrant detention, with No New Youth Jail to stop the construction of a youth jail, and with Decriminalize Seattle and Solidarity Budget to defund the Seattle Police Department. Her writing and advocacy focus on shrinking reliance on policing, punishment, and incarceration as a response to social problems. At Mesa, she worked on her book that invites readers to question the legitimacy of the U.S. state formation and tackles the question of what kinds of political formations will best give our human and non-human kin the best chance of survival in the decades to come. Angélica is the Pamela Krasney Moral Courage Fellow.