Dr. David C. Turner III is an Assistant Professor of Black Life and Racial Justice in the Department of Social Welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. He is also the Faculty Director of the Million Dollar Hoods Project – a community-driven research initiative to map the fiscal and human cost of incarceration, and senior advisor for the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color – a statewide alliance of 200 grassroots organizations in California. As a movement scholar from Inglewood, California, his award-winning research broadly focuses on social movements, political identity, and resistance to the prison regime. As a community organizer, Dr. Turner brings over fifteen years of movement-building experience to the classroom, having worked to negotiate and win demands for racial justice, secure funding, divest resources from carceral and harmful institutions, and coordinate actions across the state of California and the nation. Dr. Turner has participated in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) as a political education and research specialist, helping organizations with teach-ins, designing curricula, and community-based participatory action research. Dr. Turner has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, NBC BLK, the Los Angeles Times, Spectrum 1 News, and the New York Times for his activism and applied scholarship.