Mary Bernstein is professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. She publishes broadly in the fields of social movements, politics, race, gender, and law. She is winner of several national awards from the American Sociological Association, has co-edited three books and her articles appear in numerous journals. Her most recent article (co-authored with Jordan Rees and Elizabeth Charash) “Once in Parkland, A Year in Hartford, A Weekend in Chicago: Race and Resistance in the Gun Violence Prevention Movement” is forthcoming in the journal Sociological Forum.