Director of Practice, Beyond Prisons Initiative

Alice (she/her) writes, teaches, and organizes around issues of access to education for incarcerated individuals, capital punishment, police torture, and the prison system. She teaches at a maximum-security prison and leads community-building efforts for the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project, connecting scholars, teaching artists, and community leaders with incarcerated students.

As a co-founder of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM), Kim was instrumental in the historic reparations legislation passed by the Chicago City Council in May 2015 for survivors of police torture under Commander Jon Burge. She played a key role in the movement to end capital punishment in Illinois and nationwide, working closely with the Death Row 10, a group of African American men tortured by Burge’s forces. Her advocacy was crucial in securing the blanket commutation of Illinois's 167 death sentences in 2003.

Kim co-edited The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom (Haymarket Books, 2018) and is currently co-authoring a book on the Chicago police torture cases. A 2016 Soros Justice Fellow, she has previously served as editor of Praxis Center and a lecturer in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kim holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MFA in Writing from Bennington College.