A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21^st Century. She is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the IPRH-Mellon fellow in Legal Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Studies Resident Associate for the Initiative on “Abolition.” Her research and teaching interests include comparative ethnic studies; U.S. imperialism; U.S. militarism; social and cultural approaches to legal studies; transnational and women of color feminisms; carceral spaces; and labor, race, and migration. 

Nana Gyamfi is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the largest Black-led racial justice and immigrant rights organization in the U.S. representing Black Immigrants, refugees and their families. A movement attorney for over 25 years, Nana is co-founder of Justice Warriors 4 Black Lives and Human Rights Advocacy, organizations dedicated to fighting for human rights and Black liberation. She is a former professor in the Pan African Studies Department at California State University Los Angeles. 

Paromita Shah is the Executive Director of Just Futures Law. Her work specializes in strategies to combat immigration detention, enforcement and criminalization. With over twenty years of experience, she has provided innovative legal and advocacy support to lawyers and legal advocates, grassroots groups, organizers, and policy stakeholders fighting criminalization and immigration enforcement. Previously, she worked as a staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services representing individuals seeking asylum, VAWA and other relief.