Dilara Yarbrough is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, San Diego. Her research analyzes racialization and gendering through carceral and social service institutions and examines radical harm reduction and grassroots organizing as transformative approaches to social provision for people deprived of housing. Her writing has been published in journals including Punishment and Society, Social Problems, and the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and cited by the ACLU, the Transgender Law Center, and the New York Times. She has also coauthored policy reports in collaboration with San Francisco housing and gender justice organizations. Her collaborative projects have won awards from the Sociological Initiatives Foundation, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the University of California Center for Human Rights. Dr. Yarbrough is working on her first book, Abolitionist Care, which details how poverty relief services provided by and for sex workers and transgender women of color decouple social provision from punishment and explores ways to replace policing with provision of housing and care at a broader institutional scale.