Background

Harley is an AM/PhD Student in Social Work. They graduated in 2024 with a joint B.A. in Comparative Human Development and an M.A. in the Social Sciences, specializing in Anthropology.

Research

Harley’s research focuses on the intersection between incarceration, the body, and dissent. They are continuing a community ethnography of disabled solidarity in the jail, with an emphasis on how education and care spark resistance in a landscape of political repression. After facilitating writing workshops with people incarcerated in Cook County Jail, they now organize with people inside and beyond jail walls.