Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge

Nurturing Integrity on Colonized Land

• Author(s):
• Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge

My grandfather descended from a family of farmers – homesteaders, given cheap land after the government committed genocide to clear it for white families like mine. When my grandfather married my grandmother, he was welcomed into her family’s business: the lumber mill, turning forests into 2x4s.

Issue: On Place (May 2022)

Quakers for Abolition Network

• Author(s):
• Jed Walsh,
• Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge,
• Jeff Kisling,
• Fatema Jaffer,
• Elliotte Enochs,
• Megan Wilson

by Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge and Jed Walsh

Issue: On Cliques (September 2021)

Abolish the Police

• Author(s):
• Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge,
• Jed Walsh

Jed Walsh and Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge are close friends who do police and prison abolition work together. They sent Western Friend a conversation about what abolition means to them, and how it fits into their lives as Quakers.

Issue: On Rules (November 2020)