Tommaso Bardelli Author

Andrew Ross is a social activist and professor at NYU, where he teaches in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Prison Education Program. A contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times, The Nation, and Al Jazeera, he is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including, most recently, Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing.

Tommaso Bardelli is currently the Director of Research and Popular Education at Worth Rises, an advocacy organization dedicated to dismantle the prison industry and protect and return the resources of those it touches. Before joining Worth Rises, Tommaso was a Senior Researcher at the NYU Prison Education Program Research Lab, a collaboration between faculty and formerly incarcerated students at NYU conducting research on the financial costs of mass incarceration.

Aiyuba Thomas is a recent MA Graduate from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Aiyuba’s most current research is involved with labor and incarceration as well as incarceration disability studies.