Jub Sankofa
About Jub Sankofa
jub Sankofa is an organizer, researcher, instructor, and herbalist. He co-founded just futures LLC, a tech, research and consultancy firm that focuses on Black diasporic histories, virtual and augmented reality, documentary and digital storytelling, the school/abuse to prison pipeline, youth education, probation, parole, jail and prison abolition, commutations, and a host of other criminal legal issues. jub is the director of the just futures Mobile Studio—a filmmaking, documentary, digital storytelling, and Tech Lab that conducts trainings and workshops with businesses, prison education programs, schools, ect. The jf mobile studio specifically aims to support incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, especially system involved youth, children with incarcerated parents, and anyone directly impacted by the criminal legal system. Currently, jub is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Ph.D programs of African American Studies & American Studies at Yale University. His multi-disciplinary research and teaching methods explore digital humanities, documentary, migrations, Black freedom movements, carceral histories, confinement literature, the Black West, labor, and American history from 1850's to the present. One of jub’s primary fields of research and teaching focuses on Black women’s history at the intersections of race, gender, and the criminal legal system in the early 20th century. jub's dissertation, Fugitives From Justice: Black Women on the Move and the Rise of Criminal Identification in North America, 1887-1940 examines the lives of young Black migrant women, underground economies, and the professionalization of policing and the criminal legal system. Fugitives From Justice uses prison case files in California and other states in the American West, police mugbooks, newspapers, probation and parole applications and other archival sources to reconstruct a story about race, gender, migration, survival, and punishment in the North America.