Alice Kim

Educator, Organizer, Activist

Alice is the founding director of the Beyond Prisons Initiative at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture. The initiative is a teaching and learning project that engages and connects students, faculty, and community in work addressing the social injustices caused by mass incarceration alongside opportunities to support education inside prisons. She teaches inside Illinois prisons with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and is a co-founder of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials.

Alice played a crucial role in the successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois. She works with justice system-impacted individuals and communities to create platforms for truth-telling. She also develops educational programming and community building efforts for and with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.