Eliza Gonring

Eliza Gonring is an abolitionist organizer currently residing in Chicago. They began their entry into social movement work as student organizer at Northwestern. Her abolitionist work starred with hosting student — prisoner correspondence nights and she was a founding member of NU Community Not Cops. Currently, they work full time with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and serve as a mentor for Dissenters.


Articles by Eliza Gonring

A collage of banned book covers appears above the text Banned Books Week 2022 and the hashtag #FreeTheBooks with Pen America’s logo in the bottom left corner.
Prison and Justice Writing
Thursday September 15

Abolitionist Organizing: Brick by Brick, Book by Book

Struggles against prison censorship remind us that information is power and that prisons maintain their power, in part, by preventing the spread of dangerous ideas.