Woods Ervin (they/them) is a black non-binary trans-femme organizer that has been working for over a decade in movements both for trans self-determination as well as prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. Woods has most recently worked with TGI Justice Project in the Bay Area. They engaged in research on the PIC at Interrupting Criminalization, a recently launched abolitionist research project. They are currently staff at Critical Resistance, an organization dedicated to prison-industrial complex abolition.