From Carceral to Abolition Feminism: Implications for Social Welfare - An Online Keynote with Keynote Speaker Mimi Kim (PhD '14) during the celebration of Haviland's 100th year anniversary.
Mimi Kim is Associate Professor of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach and a long-time advocate and activist working on issues of gender-based violence in communities of color. She is a co-founder of Incite! Women,Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Against Violence, a social movement organization influential in the development of abolition feminism. In 2004, Mimi established Creative Interventions which created and promoted collective, community-based and non-criminalizing approaches to address and end domestic and sexual violence, an approach known as community accountability and transformative justice. Mimi’s research on the historical development of carceral feminism and the contemporary transformative justice movement includes “The Carceral Creep: Gender-Based Violence, Race, and the Expansion of the Punitive State, 1973-1983” (2020) and “From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women of Color Feminism and Alternatives to Incarceration” (2018).
She has also remained active in transformative justice and restorative justice practice including The CHAT Project in Contra Costa County and documentation of grassroots transformative justice practice through a relaunch of the national StoryTelling & Organizing Project. In 2023, Mimi was recipient of the Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Award.