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We take another look at some stories we’ve been following for the past few weeks, from new angles and with new insights.

First, Cayden is joined by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and co-editor of The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration. As a geographer of prisons and mass incarceration, her work specifically looks at the Gulf South and Louisiana. They discuss how and why the state uses its infrastructure of mass incarceration – and how abolitionist movements have fought back.

Then, Jenn Frye of the Carolina Federation (@carolinafederation) joins to talk about the organized resistance to Republican attempts to overturn the results of last fall’s state supreme court election, which is caught up in layers of legal recourse (no more valid than Trump’s desperate attempts to reverse the 2020 election results) as Republicans attempt to throw out over 65,000 votes.

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Jenn Frye

Jenn Frye is the Co-Director of the Carolina Federation, where she leads the organization’s political, communications, and development departments. Jenn was born and raised in North Carolina and comes from generations of farmers, mill workers, preachers, and public school teachers. She has over 20 years of experience organizing, facilitation, and organization building in North Carolina’s movement ecosystem, including six years serving on the board of the state’s c3 Civic Engagement Table. Jenn spent over a decade supporting organizations fighting the corrupting role of money in politics, protecting the right to vote, recruiting and developing leaders, and expanding participatory, multiracial democracy through policy change and culture shift work.

About the Host

Cayden Mak
Cayden Mak

Cayden Mak is the publisher at Convergence Magazine and the host of Block & Build: Roadmaps for the Left.

Prior to Convergence, Cayden spent nearly a decade in various roles at 18 Million Rising, including five years as Executive Director and two as Chief Technology Officer, developing the organization inside and out into the digital-first anchor of national progressive Asian American organizing. His other movement work has included organizing for community-designed affordable housing with the Save E. 12th Coalition, co-founding Youngist, a youth media collective, organizing graduate research assistants for a labor union, and helping coordinate tracks and network gatherings at the Allied Media Conference. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Kairos Fellowship and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the International Storytelling Center.