Rachel Herzing

Rachel Herzing is an organizer, activist, and advocate fighting the violence of surveillance, policing, and imprisonment. Herzing is the co-author, with Justin Piché, of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment and is a member of the Institute for Abolitionist Accompaniment. Herzing was executive director of Center for Political Education, a resource for political organizations on the left and progressive social movements; codirector of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex; and director of research and training at Creative Interventions, a community resource that developed interventions to interpersonal harm that do not rely on policing, imprisonment, or traditional social services. She lives in New York City.