Soros Justice Fellowships
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Reginald Gossett
2007 Critical Resistance A grant to launch Building Bridges, to research and document rising rates of imprisonment of low-income women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. The project will organize these communities to oppose jail expansion and construction in New York City. Gossett is an activist who has worked with a number of community organizations in New York City, including Columbia University's multiracial activist collective Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge. He is a founding member of Welfare Warriors, a project of Queers for Economic Justice, which organizes low-income LGBT and gender nonconforming people in New York City. Gossett works with family members of incarcerated people through Critical Resistance, co-editing the publication Thru the People, an art and political forum for incarcerated people and those affected by the prison-industrial complex. Gossett has also worked with the residents of La Casita, a residential treatment facility for women in the Bronx, to create their own publication. He is a recent graduate of Columbia University. New York, NY | 1 Year | |
