![]() He supported communications and campaign strategy for the Communities Over Cages: Close the Jail ATL Campaign, a campaign led by Women on the Rise to close the Atlanta City Detention Center and reinvest millions back into communities most harmed by its operation. Wes has led and supported campaigns to end policing and close jails and youth prisons in New Orleans and Atlanta. He works with small to mid-size nonprofits and grassroots organizations on issues ranging from communications and campaign strategy to organizational growth and development. Wes is a strategist, consultant & trainer with 20 years experience in movement building work, primarily at the intersections of racial justice and queer/ gender liberation in the South, with a specific focus on abolitionist campaigns. "Rounding Up The Homosexuals’: The Impact of Juvenile Court on Queer and Trans/Gender Non-conforming Youth” published in the anthology, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Forthcoming, 2024) Co-authored essay published in The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration Locked Up & Out: LGBTQ Youth in Louisiana's Juvenile Justice System (Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, 2010) ![]() We Deserve Better: A Report By and For Queer and Trans Youth of Color (editor, co-written with staff and members of BreakOUT!, 2014) Get Yr Rights: A Toolkit for LGBTQTS Youth and LGBTQTS Serving Organizations (co-written with staff of BreakOUT! and Streetwise and Safe, 2015) ![]() Get Yr Rights Curriculum (co-written with staff of Streetwise and Safe and BreakOUT!, 2015) Navigating DOJ Consent Decrees in the Context of Campaigns to Defund Police (w/ Community Resource Hub, 2021)įrom Vice to ICE Toolkit (editor, co-written with staff of BreakOUT! & the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice, 2017) ![]()
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