Dr. Brittany Pearl Battle is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Comunidades Confined Lab. She is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department and Affiliate Faculty in the African American Studies program at Wake Forest University. As an ethnographer, she conducts research that examines carceral systems through a radical Black feminist lens, including in family policy, housing, immigration, and the criminal legal system. She teaches courses on social justice, abolition and transformative justice, feminist research methods, and courts. Her work has been published in Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Theory and Review, Theoretical Criminology, and elsewhere. In addition, Brittany is a community organizer and Co-Founder/Co-Director of Triad Abolition Project (TAP), a grassroots organization working in solidarity with and for incarcerated and criminalized folks, and those vulnerable to criminalization and state violence. TAP’s work focuses on direct action, political education, civic engagement, and healing and transformative justice initiatives. Brittany’s praxis of scholarship and activism has been recognized with a variety of awards, including the Eastern Sociological Society’s Public Sociology Award, Sociologists for Women in Society’s Feminist Activism Award, and the Praxis Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice. She is a past two-time Ford Fellow, Institute for Research on Poverty Fellow, and American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program Fellow. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and elsewhere. Brittany is a proud first-gen college student, New Jersey native, and auntie/godmom! Learn more about Brittany’s work by visiting her website.