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K. Agbebiyi 
You can follow K on Instagram @Kagbebiyi.

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About K


K Adetoyin (Toyin) Agbebiyi is a Black disabled lesbian, organizer, writer, and strategist from Kennesaw, Georgia. The majority of K’s work revolves around political education, writing, and organizing strategy in regards to ending the prison industrial complex. K has given trainings and lectures at universities such as Yale, Columbia, the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa, Harvard, and the University of Illinois- Chicago Medical School. K’s writing has been featured on Rewire News, WearYourVoice, The Guardian and also in MoMA PS1. They’ve also been featured in magazines such as BITCH and Glamour. In 2020, they were chosen for the BITCH 50 list.

K came to organizing through their lived experiences as a Black lesbian attending school in the south.  In their 10+ years of organizing, K has organized in groups working on immigration, LGBTQ, reproductive, disability, and racial justice. They have been a member of numerous coalitions, and were a co-founder of the viral 8toabolition.com. During their time in Brooklyn, K was also an organizer with the No New Jails Campaign, Inside Outside collective, and an active member of Survived and Punished New York. They also co-created a Disability Justice Mutual Aid fund which raised over $60,000 for disabled organizers. As a co-founder of the successful survivor defense campaign #FreeAshleyNow they raised awareness about conditions within Georgia prisons and also engaged in popular education around the prison industrial complex. 

They earned their BS in Human Services from Kennesaw State University and received the Outstanding Graduate Award for the College of Health and Human Services. In 2018, they earned their Masters of Social Work with a concentration in Social Policy and Evaluation from the University of Michigan School of Social Work. While in graduate school, K created an annual conference around racial justice called Building Power. They also received the Rackham Graduate School Scholar Activism Award, along with the NASW Student of the Year Award.  

K currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with their dog Penny. When they are not working or writing they enjoy spending time reading, long walks, drinking matcha, watching films and knitting. 

They are represented by Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland at Odom Media Management. 
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Media 




Podcast

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Episode 111: K Agbebiyi
Gender Reveal Podcast




 Op-Ed 

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What We Mean When We Say Abolish Prisons 
Rewire News

 Podcast 

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Abolition and Democracy
Death Panel Podcast




 Quotes and Features 

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Dis/Organizing Toolkit: How We Build Collectives Beyond Institutions - Hacking//Hustling (hackinghustling.org)

Prison Abolition Requires Decriminalizing Sex Work - Rewire News Group

Conference focused on organizing against white supremacy returns to U-M (secondwavemedia.com)

Abolishing Prisons Is within Our Grasp | Bitch Media

One Question: How Have the Black Lives Matter Protests Impacted the Prison Abolition Movement? - Progressive.org

"Whiteness is in the way of seeing:" Narrativizing Middle School Students' Intersectional Perceptions of Whiteness in Literacy Instruction (stjohns.edu)

Why Japanese Americans Should Join the Fight for Abolition - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

No Filter Mag 8 to Abolition

Want to bend the curve? Abolish police and prisons - by Artie Vierkant - Health and Capital (substack.com)

Education for Abolition: A Prison Abolitionist Curriculum for a Youth After-School Program (vassar.edu)

Here's what you need to know about defunding the police - i-D (vice.com)

Minneapolis Public Schools Abolished Their Police First | The Nation

#BlackDisabledLivesMatter in the Classroom, Too by Jules Csillag – Black Lives Matter at NYC Schools (wordpress.com)
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Public Speaking



Past Work 




Academic Public Speaking








Public Speaking and Webinars