Alice Kim

Founding Director
Beyond Prisons Initiative at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture

Alice is a longtime educator, cultural organizer and activist. She creates platforms for truth-telling and develops educational programming and community building efforts that interrogate carceral logics and systems. As the founding director of the Beyond Prisons Initiative, Alice leads an innovative teaching and learning project that engages and connects students, faculty, and community in work addressing the social injustices caused by mass incarceration.

Alice teaches in Illinois prisons with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and is a co-founder of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials. As a dedicated leader in social movements, Alice played a crucial role in the successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois.