Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is co-founder of many grassroots organizations, including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. She is the recipient of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. She is the author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.