Julia Sudbury is a professor of ethnic studies at Mills College, a liberal arts women’s college in Oakland, California. From 2004 to 2006 she was the Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, Equity, and Diversity at the University of Toronto. Julia is the author of Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women’s Organizations and the Politics of Transformation (1998), the editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2005), and the coeditor of Color of Violence (2006) and (under the name Oparah) Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006).