Laura Grattan

Co-Director 

Laura Grattan is a scholar and educator whose work focuses on community organizing, grassroots politics, and social movements fighting for racial and economic justice in the United States. Her recent publications have focused on police and prison abolition, and she is co-director of the Anti-Carceral Co+Laboratory at Wellesley. Grattan’s research and teaching in political theory are shaped by nearly a decade of community organizing toward living wages and working conditions with Durham C.A.N. in Durham, North Carolina. Her commitment to community-based research and pedagogy is also indebted to two decades of work with organizations such as the Kettering Foundation and the URBAN Research Network, a network of scholars and practitioners committed to strengthening the methods and impact of community-based research.