Join us for a conversation with researchers and organizers around the prison industrial complex and the criminalization of women. Speakers include Dr. Sarah Haley (Professor of History at Columbia University and author of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity) and Rachel Herzing (Executive Director of the Center for Political Education, co-founder of Critical Resistance, and author of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Prisons).

Please join us for a guided walk through Harlem to learn about the neighborhood’s role in the movement against systemic injustice, specifically, police violence. Register for the walk here.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

The Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University invites you to celebrate the launch of our yearlong program Countering the Carceral State. Inspired by Malcolm X's internationalist insights and in line with CSSD's thematic focus in 2025-2026 on crisis, the program explores interconnections between the crises of disciplinary enforcement central to American power at home and abroad.