Jihad Abdulmumit
National Co-Chair
Jihad Abdulmumit is a community activist, motivational speaker, author and playwright. As a youth he became intensely involved in the Black Liberation Movement and Vietnam War protests. He joined the Black Panther Party at sixteen and eventually went underground in the ranks of the Black Liberation Army. Jihad was a domestic Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War having served 23 years of his life in prison for his involvement in the Black Liberation Movement. Most of his time was served in Lewisburg and Leavenworth Federal penitentiaries. He has written, directed and produced dozens of children and adult plays for spiritual, social, and political awareness, motivation and upliftment.
Aisha Mohammad
National Co-Chair
A’isha is an activist for social justice, a spoken word poet and writes poetry, short stories and essays. She served as an Ambassador for Alwatan, Hebron, Palestine and started the Bay Area Solidarity Committee for Jalil Muntaqim in 2010. In 2012, she formed Oakland Jericho with Baba Melvin Dickson as a mentor and advisor. A’isha lives by the philosophy taught to her by her parents “stand up to injustice, help others and remain humble, we are all in this together”.
Jorge Chang
National Treasurer
Jorge Chang (he/him) is a member of the NYC Chapter of the Jericho Movement. He has been active in Political Prisoner support work since 2007 where he worked with the Leonard Peltier Support Group and helped to organize for Jericho’s 10/10 and 10/11 marches. He continues to remain active in NYC Jericho. In addition to political prisoner support work, Jorge has also organized and participated in the Anarchist People of Color (APOC), Aftershock, a disaster preparedness collective, and the Climate Confluence.
Tag Harmon
National Secretary
‘Tag’ is an abolitionist organizer from Harlem committed to slavery & genocide’s disintegration.
Advisory Board
Adam Carpinelli
Adam Carpinelli is a multifaceted artist, producer, community organizer and musician. Carpinelli has been a long time advocate for community media as a way of supporting social movements with a focus on mass incarceration and houselessness. He co-produces the Prison Pipeline program at KBOO community radio where he served as a board member. Other board positions have included Right 2 Survive, Alliance for Community Media NW, Resolutions Northwest, Peer Tribe, 1 World Chorus, One Big Family Oregon and Amplifyr. Adam served as the National Secretary for The Jericho Movement from 2015-2025. He supports underserved and incarcerated youth in Oregon with a unique audiovisual music program; Keys, Beats, Bars.
Ashanti Alston
Treasurer
Revolutionary, speaker, writer, organizer, motivator; Ashanti is one of the few former members of the Black Panther Party who identifies as an anarchist in the tradition of New Afrikan ancestor Kwesi Balagoon (BPP & BLA) within the Black Liberation Movement. As a result of his membership in both the BPP and Black Liberation Army (BLA), he served a total of 14 years as a Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War. On top of all that, he is an Elder-co-parenting two youngins’ and a grandfather of a small “maroon nation.” Ashanti resides in Providence, Rhode Island.
Paulette Dauteuil
Paulette has been involved in revolutionary politics since the mid-60s. She was a member of Venceremos Brigade from Chicago in 1976 and an organizer of Prairie Fire Org. Comm, chapter Los Angeles Ca. 76-79. She became part of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee in LA and, with Robert Robideau, organized the Los Angeles defense trial of Leonard Peltier after his escape from Lompoc Federal Prison. She has with The Jericho Movement since it’s founding in 1998 having served as former Co-Chair (2010-2012) and National Secretary (2012-2014) for The Jericho Movement. She has spoken on behalf of the organization at international conferences in the Basque Country, Paris, London, The Netherlands, Beirut and Lebanon.
Anne Lamb
I first became involved with Political Prisoner work in 1973. After the coup in Chile, I worked with The Office for Political Prisoners and Human Rights in Chile (OPPRICH) and helped to save the lives of many of these Political Prisoners. I was also involved in the movement against the war in Vietnam and the movement against the U.S. wars in Central America. I worked with Comité El Salvador in the 1980s in support of the FMLN and helped produce our monthly newspaper, El Salvador’s Link. I also lived and worked in Nicaragua from 1984 until the early 1990s.
After returning to the U.S., I once again became involved in political prisoner work after meeting the late great Safiya Bukhari, one of the co-founders of The Jericho Movement. When I met her, Safiya was leading the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, of which I was a member. Working with Safiya was an honor and a privilege, and so of course I joined with her and others and have been with Jericho since its inception, working hard to free U.S. Political Prisoners and POWs.
Kazi Toure
Kazi Ajagun Toure, aka, Chris King, I grew up in Portsmouth, N.H. and naturally gravitated to The Black Panther Party. On February 7th, 1982, he was arrested in a shootout with the Massachusetts State police, and was charged with federal possession of firearms, and sentence to six years and six months. Later the State of Massachusetts he was charged with possession of the same guns, and gave him a four to five year sentence running on and after I did the 6 for the feds. In May of 1986, he was charged with “Seditious Conspiracy”, and being a member of the United Freedom Front, an armed clandestine unit, that carried out several actions against U.S. imperialism in El Salvador and Puerto Rico. In Boston In December 1986 he plead guilty, and was sentenced to seven years on and after the previous two sentences. He was released on October 1, 1991.