Dan Berger is an associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at UW Bothell and a coordinator of the Washington Prison History Project. He has written or edited six books, including the award-winning Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, and wrote an introduction to the second edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. His writings have appeared in Black Perspectives, Truthout, the Washington Post, and elsewhere.
