Speakers
Room for Everyone: March 17th - 19th, 2025
In our 4th Annual Transformative Action & Abolition Symposium, Prison Abolition Club hopes to explore themes around accessibility in leftist organizing, how marginalized people can take up and take back space from oppressive systems, and the room that prisons hold in our society.
LC Community Panel: Perspectives on Prisons
- Adam Gregg, LC ’08 (current LC Law student)
- Riley McGinley, LC ’27, Speech and Debate
- Cari Zall, faculty of Graduation School of Education and Counseling
- Beau Staun-List, LC ’25, Nutrition INSIDE and Lettuce Grow
- Noelle St. John, Growing Gardens
Expert Presentation: Benjamin Ficklin
Image Description: Benjamin is leaning against the wooden railing of a boardwalk with the ocean visible behind them. They are facing towards but looking past the camera. They are wearing a cowboy hat, white short sleeve shirt, buckled belt and jeans.
Benjamin McPherson Ficklin (they/them) is a movement organizer, a poet, & an educator. After growing up in Portland as a punk kid protesting the Bush administration’s wars, they worked for seven years doing rapid response & border abolition work with the South Texas Human Rights Center in the Rio Grande Valley. In returning to Portland full-time in 2022, they have developed a court accompaniment program with the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice & act as one of the conveners of the Deportation Defense Coalition, building a broad-base to fight detentions & deportations in our communities. They are also an organizing member of the International Migrants Alliance, The Oregon to Palestine Coalition, & are the President of ILWU Local 5. Their life as a poet informs their organizing; their hope for a better world is continually transformed by poetry.
Embracing Disability Justice Roundtable
- Elea Chang, Affect the Verb
- Brianna Bragg, The Uprise Collective
- Babatunde “Zubbi” Azubuike, Black and Beyond the Binary
- Benjamin Mann, Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies
Black and Pink PDX
PDX Organization Open House
- ClownBloc
- Resist US-Led War
- Letters for Palestine
- International Women’s Alliance
- The American Party of Labor
- The Healing Underground
- Bayan Oregon
- Black and Beyond the Binary
- Kalikasan Solidarity
- The Cupcake Girls
- Portland Clean Air Committee
- People Organizing for Philippine Solidarity
- The International League for People’s Struggle
- Street Roots
email prisonabolitionlc@lclark.edu
Fellow Moratti L&C ’26
Classics, Religious Studies
Deenie Bulyalert L&C ’27
Biology, Psychology
Corey Near-Ansari L&C ’26
Theater, Rhetoric and Media Studies
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