Melanie Brazzell

Melanie Brazzell is a social movement researcher. They are currently a fellow at the P3 Lab (Johns Hopkins University) and a graduate student and Chancellor’s fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara. Melanie recently authored the Building Structure Shapes report based on a collaboration with the Realizing Democracy Project and movement partners from Sunrise, Color Of Change, ISAIAH, United for Respect, NY Working Families Party, and Florida’s StateWide Alignment Group. Melanie’s other strand of research builds off of their experience over the past fifteen years organizing for transformative justice alternatives to prison and policing for gendered harm under the umbrella of the What really makes us safe? Project.