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Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Keynote Speaker: Professor of Geography at City University of New York & Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics

Ruth Wilson Gilmore Biography

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a writer, educator, and researcher. She is a professor of earth and environmental sciences, and American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, where she is also director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.

Gilmore writes about abolition, racial capitalism, organized violence, organized abandonment, changing state structure, the aesthetics and politics of seeing, labor and social movements, and internationalism. She is the author of “Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation” (2022), and of the prize-winning “Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California” (2007). With Paul Gilroy she edited “Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference” (2021). “Change Everything” is forthcoming from Haymarket. The Antipode documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore (dir Kenton Card, 2020) features her internationalist work.

She has co-founded many grassroots organizations including California Prison Moratorium Project; Critical Resistance; and Central California Environmental Justice Network. Honors include the Ralph Santiago Abascal Prize in Economic and Environmental justice (2003); the Southern California Library Lifetime Achievement Award (2007); A New Way of Life Re-entry Project Lifetime Achievement Award (2010); the American Studies Association Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship (2012); the Association of American Geographers Harold Rose Award for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (2014); the SUNY-Purchase College Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize for Social and Environmental Justice (2015-16); and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Award (2020). In 2021 Gilmore was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Marguerite Casey Foundation 2022 Freedom Scholar. In 2023 Clark University awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore Videos

Ruth Gilmore: The In/Security State
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The Economy of Incarceration: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Government, Professors, Environment, Environmental Policy, Environmental Activism, Environmental Science, Social Activism, Black Heritage, Energy and Civil Rights.

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Government, Professors and Environment. The estimated speaking fee range to book Ruth Wilson Gilmore for live events is $10,000 - $20,000. Please contact us for virtual event fees. Ruth Wilson Gilmore can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Van Jones, Jamie Margolin and Bob Kopp. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ruth Wilson Gilmore for an upcoming event.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore Videos

Ruth Gilmore: The In/Security State
Ruthie Gilmore, "When the Prison Industrial Complex Masquerades ...
The Economy of Incarceration: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Beyond The Prison Industrial Complex

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  • Colorado College, Sociology - Nov 15 2023

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