Author Pages | Julia Chinyere Oparah
Biography
Julia Chinyere Oparah is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College, a
women’s liberal arts college in Oakland, California, author (under her previous name, Julia Sudbury) of Other
Kinds of Dreams: Black Women’s Organisations and the Politics of
Transformation (Routledge 1998) and editor of Global Lockdown: Race,
Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex (Routledge 2005). Oparah is
involved in the prison abolitionist, anti-violence and global justice
movements and is a co-founder of Sankofa, a support group for
transracial adoptees in the San Francisco Bay Area.
