Speakers: El Jones

El Jones is a poet, journalist, educator, prison abolitionist and activist living in African Nova Scotia. She is the co-founder of Black Power Hour, a radio collective with prisoners on CKDU 88.1FM. Her work explores state violence in Canada at sites of prisons, policing, and deportation. She is the author with Randolph Riley of “Many a Thousand Gone”, which appears in Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada from University of Regina Press.