Up until last week, Dr. Garrett Felber was on track to become a tenured history professor at the . Dr. Felber studies race and incarceration in the U.S. and is a dedicated advocate for people who are imprisoned. He’s also a published author, having written ‘Those Who Know Don’t Say: The , the Black Freedom Movement and the Carceral State’ and co-written ‘The Portable Reader’ with -winning biographer Manning Marable.