Emile Suotonye DeWeaver is the award-winning

author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine:

Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist

Future.

He has more than 20 years of experience

facilitating and designing curricula for men.

He is a formerly incarcerated person, a prison abolitionist, and a resident of Sanctuary, a matriarchal community where he is slowly learning what it means to feel at home.

He writes and facilitates at the intersection of Black liberation, queer liberation, and the liberation of men from the con that promised them everything and gave them counterfeits. He believes that the men who have been most damaged by patriarchy are also the men most essential to dismantling it – and that they do not need to be shamed into changing. They need to be invited into

something better.

He lives in right relationship, as best he can, with his intimates and Mother Earth.