Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, and collaborator who is committed to building and supporting abolitionist, liberationist, anti-colonial and other forms of radical community and movement. Since 2001, he has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside. He was elected to serve as President of the American Studies Association in 2020-2021, and in 2020 was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars. Since the late-1990s, he has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, the Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and Blackness Unbound, among others. Dylan is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He was a co-editor of the field shaping text Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2016). Most importantly, Dylan appreciates participating in all forms of collective study, thought, and planning that build capacities to survive and revolt against oppressive conditions.

Gloria Gonzalez is a twenty-six-year-old mother, organizer, artivist, and mentor born and raised in South Central Los Angles. She comes to movement work as someone who has experienced the youth justice system and the criminal justice systems. Her work is rooted in youth justice, abolition, and transformative justice. She currently sits on the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council in Los Angeles County. She is a consultant for the Youth Justice Advisory Workgroup, and her role at the Youth Justice Coalition is the Youth Development Coordinator. Gloria emphasizes, “I walk this path with courage because my ancestors walk with me."

Jared O'Brien also known by the stage name King Jaybo is a singer, rapper, songwriter, social justice advocate, and community organizer. O’Brien was born in Belize but moved to Los Angeles in 2014 with his mother and brothers who are also musical artists. King Jaybo as a part of his endeavors had opportunities o render opening performances before acts such as John Legend, Vic Mensa, Kehlani, and more at the Into Action Art Exhibit. He is a talented songwriter and has never had another dream other than to create music and Pursue his dreams as a musician.

Despite being offered distribution deals, O’Brien started his own recording and management company. He was selected for a taskforce to create the first Youth Diversion and Development Department in Los Angeles County. In 2017 , Jared helped to end LA county’s 3.5 Billion dollar Jail expansion plan. In April of 2020 Jared worked as a lead coordinator for the Justice LA coalition to free over 4000 people from the LA County Jail.

Jared was arrested multiple times in Belize and at the age of 17 arrested again in California but managed to avoid a nine year prison sentence in the California state of California. Jaybo uses music to connect people in the movement with themes of hope, change, international solidarity, & racial Justice. Some of his song lyrics have been adopted as protest chants during #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations in Los Angeles. Jared says that his experience as an Afro-Latinx immigrant in Los Angeles helps him to bridge gaps between Black and Brown communities.