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Janet Asante (she/her) is a queer Los Angeles-based abolitionist feminist organizer and creative from Houston, Texas. Janet leads campaign strategy for the campaign to close Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles, and spearheads media and communications for liberation—most notably for Dignity and Power Now and the JusticeLA Coalition.

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Janet has dedicated her life to organizing against injustice and inequity since childhood, and is an award winning writer, speaker, and poet. Prior to joining DPN and JLA, Janet worked to exonerate incarcerated people with the Texas Innocence Network (TIN) at the University of Houston Law Center, and served as a Second Day Impact Fellow with Deeds Not Words.

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While achieving her Bachelor’s Degree in Environment, Economics, and Politics at Scripps College, Janet was invited to present her thesis, “CRUEL AND BUSINESS AS USUAL: An Analysis of State Sponsored Violence in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice” at the ‘Abolition is Feminism, Feminism is Abolition: Policy Convening’ with other scholar-activists such as Andrea Ritchie and ​​Mariame Kaba.

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Outside of her social impact and organizing work, Janet enjoys performing poetry, video games, and music festivals.

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