Zaina Alsous

Zaina Alsous is a prison abolitionist, a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora, and a movement worker in South Florida. She is an organizing member of the Dream Defenders, a youth-led abolitionist organization in the state of Florida. Prior to Dream Defenders she did communications for the Fight for $15 Campaign and Southerners on New Ground. She has been an organizer in the U.S. South for the last 10 years because she believes in building working-class anti-imperialist power. Her poetry, reviews, and essays have been published in POETRY Magazine, The Kenyon Review, the New Inquiry, Adroit, and elsewhere.