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Alice MacGarvie Thompson

2022 Whipple Writing Fellow

Alice MacGarvie Thompson '23 is a student at Brookline High School. In school, she is passionately involved in the Climate Justice Club and Student Government. Outside of school, she is an active member of pro-housing and anti-prison organizations. Alice is deeply invested in social and racial justice. She is especially passionate about housing justice, climate justice, and anti-prison organizing. She is a prison abolitionist who realized the importance of writing to the abolitionist movement from reading authors like Mariame Kaba and Angela Davis. She is incredibly grateful for this opportunity and hopes to spend this internship combining engaging storytelling with advocating for specific local policies around decarceration.

Read Alice's Whipple Writing Fellowship piece, '“Not Who I Was or Who I Was Becoming”: Stories of incarceration and policy change in Massachusetts' here!

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