Kelly Hayesis a Menominee author, organizer, movement educator, and photographer. She is also the host of Truthout's podcastMovement Memos. Hayes is a cofounder of the Lifted Voices collectve and the Chicago Light Brigade. Her written work is featured in numerous publications and multiple anthologies, includingWho Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States(Haymarket Books, 2016),Education in Movement Spaces: Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square(Routledge, 2020), andThe Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail at Showing Up for Each Other in the Fight for Freedom(BGD Press, 2016). Hayes also coauthored an essay with Mariame Kaba in Kaba's bookWe Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice(Haymarket Books, 2021). Hayes's movement photography is featured in the Freedom and Resistance exhibit of the DuSable Museum of African American History.