Catherine Besteman is an abolitionist educator and anthropologist at Colby College with a focus on security, militarism, displacement, and community-based activism. She founded Freedom & Captivity, the Colby Across the Walls prison education program, and the Colby College Justice Think Tank and is a host for Justice Radio.   As 2024 Soros Justice Fellow and member of Common Justice’s Practitioner’s Lab, she is dedicated to building reparative and healing pathways for those who have experienced serious harm as well as those who have caused serious harm. She has received recent fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.