Resistant Communiqués Collective
Resistant Communiqués, led by a collective of educators, activists, and former academics, is a knowledge hub and digital repository that collects stories of resistance, solidarity, and activism to counter assaults on education and human rights in the United States.
Meet our collective (alphabetical order):
Justin Fowler (he/him) is an educator and research scientist with a PhD in Poultry Science from Texas A&M University (2014), and was an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist for Poultry Nutrition at the University of Georgia from 2015-2020. Justin has since worked in education in alternative settings, including school districts operating within the Department of Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice’s Alternative Education Program.
Jamila Hammami (Jamila/them) is a writer, strategist, scholar, resistance archivist, educator, and organizer with over 20 years of experience in cross-movement grassroots organizing. A Sundance Institute Creative Change alum and Opportunity Agenda Communications Institute alum, Jamila specializes in movement, narrative, and strategic defense strategy, empowering communities to reclaim their stories and shift public discourse toward structural change. Grounded in ethical storytelling, political education, and decolonial research methods, they bring clarity and deep insight into cultural and movement dynamics to media that build collective power. Jamila’s scholarly work focuses on community organizing, social movements, labor, ethnic studies, queer and transgender studies, U.S. immigration law, and carceral and border abolition movements, with a specific emphasis on criminalization and resistance. Their scholarly and public-facing writing spans human rights, race, labor, empire, queer politics, community organizing, social movements, and the experiences of folks on the move, MENA labor politics, and the history and political economy of borders and carcerality. Jamila’s non-scholarly writing has appeared in Common Dreams, LeftVoice, and others.
Zeb Larson (he/him) is a writer and historian based in Columbus. He received a PhD in History from Ohio State University in 2019, where he studied the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. His research focused on the creation of a grassroots movement opposing apartheid in South Africa and the factors that made it so powerful. His writing has appeared in Teen Vogue, Jacobin, DAME, the BBC, and The Los Angeles Times. Zeb is no longer in academia but continues to write and research.
Katherine (Hyun-Joo) Mooney (she/her) is an independent scholar and poet based in the DMV. She received a PhD in History from Ohio State University in 2024, where she studied Zambia’s post-independence period as a moment of artistic, diplomatic, and political possibility. Her academic article on Zamrock is forthcoming in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2026). Katherine has published essays about free speech in Africa Is a Country, prize book culture and censorship in Picturing Black History, African independence as a process in Origins, and the limits of sci-fi world-building in The Lantern. Her poetry has appeared in Lunch Ticket, The Maine Review, Pigeon Pages, Poets Reading the News, and other journals. A Korean adoptee, Katherine is deeply engaged in genealogical research, intergenerational family histories, and work toward greater justice for international adoptees. Hyun-Joo works outside academia as a storyteller and editor, producing digital public history projects and publications for local businesses.