Susannah Sheffer is a clinical mental health counselor who works frequently with people who have experienced trauma, and a writer and researcher focusing on the impact of the death penalty. SUSANNAH SHEFFER (she/her) Access to Treatment Director In addition, Gabe was selected as the 2023 University of California Regents Lecturer in Information Studies. Gabriel is also currently serving on Shift Collective’s Historypin Research Faculty to help explore the viability of decentralized digital storage as a secure and affordable solution for community archives, the advisory board for the Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History ( C-CAP TEACH) project, and as a Fellowship Mentor for Fanny Garcia’s Separated, a National Endowment for the Humanities supported project documenting the lived experiences of parents separated from their children at the U.S./Mexico border under the “zero tolerance” policy in 2018. Gabriel has served as a consultant for the Ford Foundation’s Reclaiming the Border Narrative initiative, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Oral History Project, and the UCLA Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration project.
His writings have appeared in Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, Oxford American, Scalawag, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics, and Power, and Kula: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies. Gabriel is the recipient of the 2018 Pushcart Prize for nonfiction. Prior to returning to Texas After Violence in 2016, where he previously served as project coordinator and associate director, Gabriel worked as a capital post-conviction investigator for the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs, criminal justice researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and helped lead the Guantánamo Bay Oral History Project at the Columbia Center for Oral History Research. GABRIEL SOLÍS (he/him) Executive Director and Ex-Officio Board Member
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Hannah’s research focuses on how personal artifacts and works of creative expressions generated by the incarcerated can be protected in instances of in-custody death and the subsequent death review and psychological autopsy processes that ensue her archival practice is concerned with how to care for these materials once they are retrieved.Īside from her work as an archivist and researcher, Hannah loves never-ending sentences, Burt’s Bees chapstick (not sponsored), walking around looking at flowers and plants, and sending her friends unsolicited playlists. Hannah joined Texas After Violence in February of 2022 after being introduced to us while studying Archival Science as a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles.Īs the daughter of an incarcerated father and someone who believes deeply in the affective, testimonial power of personal materials, she is interested in personal archiving, posthumous rights in records, and archival methods that can be used to subvert the tactics of surveillance and silencing that occur through state-maintained archives. HANNAH WHELAN (she/her) Documentation and Archives Director She recently graduated from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and continues to pursue social justice in state and local carceral systems. Having taught nearly every age, from PreK to the elderly, Murphy believes in community storytelling, narrative power, and memory as transformative, abolitionist tools for both the personal and political. She returned to Austin and began organizing writing classes at the county jail in addition to poetry workshops from visiting poets, Eileen Myles, Ebony Stewart, Morgan Parker, and Derrick Brown. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in Plan II Honors, English Honors, and History, Murphy moved to New York as a member of New York City Teaching Fellows and taught AP Literature and Composition and creative writing classes at a Title-1 high school in Hell’s Kitchen. Murphy joined Texas After Violence in 2020 after years of teaching creative writing at Travis County Correctional Complex and serving as executive director of Freehand Arts Project.
MURPHY ANNE CARTER (she/her) Public Programs Director
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