Brittany Friedman

Dr. Brittany Friedman is a sociologist, cultural & political theorist, author, and spiritual herbalist. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, where she received the 2024 Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. She is the host of the podcast Exploitation Nation on Apple podcasts and Substack. Much of her work is organized around investigating and making sense of the grave harms we grapple with in our society and how they are perpetrated by individuals and institutions who use power to engage in disinformation, target vulnerable populations, and reproduce social and economic inequalities. Like Ida B. Wells and other seers before us, we must look until we cannot sit still. Once we uncover these harms, the work is to dream a path forward. To this end, Dr. Friedman also focuses her energy on restoring harmony through reimagining how we can heal and transform systems of oppression and control into structures of life, joy, and creativity. She is the author of Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.