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Arissa Media Group (AMG), founded in 2009, by Craig Rosebraugh, was bought by a small group of people in 2012, then later that year sold as a project to the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.  AMG, an all-volunteer publishing collective, is one of the only presses dedicated to publishing those that have been and are  incarcerated in prisons, jails, border detention facilities, juvenile detention facilities, and mental hospitals for prisoners. AMG strive to publish Authors of Color.

This press is a peer-reviewed press. The peer-review process includes (1) an anonymous review of two or more scholars with doctorates and who have an expertise in the submitted proposal’s field prior to the (2) book contract and (3) another anonymous review of two or more scholars with doctorates and who have an expertise in the finalized manuscript’s field prior to (4) page layout for print and formatting.
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SENIOR EDITORS

• Matthew R. Sparks
  Editor
  spark.of.creation.xox@gmail.com
• Z. Zane McNeill
  Editor
  rootsdeiconsultingandpolicy@gmail.com

MANAGING EDITOR

• Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II, Salt Lake Community College
  Acquisitions Editor
  nocellat@yahoo.com

TREASURER

• Dr. Amber George
  Treasurer
  drambergeorge@gmail.com

FORMAT AND DESIGNERS

• Marisol A. Burgueno
  Editor, Poetry Behind the Walls
  lucasdietsche81@gmail.com
  This series is dedicated to publishing writing and art by youth incarcerated.
  
• Lucas Alan Dietsche
  Editor, Wisdom Behind the Walls book series
  This series is dedicated to publishing writing and art by adults incarcerated.
• TBA
  Editor, Former Behind the Walls book series
  This series is dedicated to publishing critical writing on critiquing the penal justice system and supporting those incarcerated by former people incarcerated.
• TBA
  Editor, Total Liberation book series
  This book series is dedicated to radical grass-roots community based intersectional strategies, tactics, and stories by those in the struggle and movement for justice.

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PEER-REVIEWERS

• Dr. David Pellow, Sociology and Environmental Justice
  University of California, Santa Barbara

• Dr. Kim Socha, Critical Animal Studies, English, and Literature
  Normandale Community College

• Dr. Rose Brewer, African-American Studies, Race, Gender, and Class
  University of Minnesota

• Dr. Waziyatawin, Native American, Transnational Feminism, Colonialism, Indigenous movements

• Dr. Nancy Heitzeg, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, and Race and Ethnic Studies
  Catherine University

• Dr. Erik Juergensmeyer, Peace and Conflict Studies, Fort Lewis College
• Dr. Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy, Race and Ethnic Studies, and Women and Gender Studies
  SUNY Cortland

• Dr. Judy K. C. Bentley, Education and Disability Studies
  SUNY Cortland

• Dr. Brian McKenna, Medical Anthropology, Environmental Health, and Native American Studies
  University of Michigan, Dearborn

• Dr. David Gabbard, Foundations of Education, Critical Pedagogy, Anarchist Studies, and Curriculum
  Boise State University

• Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication, Journalism, Women and Gender Studies, and Anarchist Studies
  SUNY Cortland

• Dr. Peter McLaren, Foundations of Education, Critical Pedagogy, Neoliberal Studies, and Critical Studies
  Chapman University

• Dr. Michael Loadenthal, Peace and Conflict Studies, Terrorism Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Justice Studies, and Gender Studies
  Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)

• Dr. Paul J. Magnarella, J.D., Human Rights, and Peace and Conflict Studies
  Warren Wilson College

• Dr. Richard  White, Critical Animal Studies, Anarchist Studies, Economic Geography, and Activism
  Sheffield Hallam University

• Dr. Nancy M. Rourke, Catholic Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies
  Canisius College

• Dr. Joseph Rayle, Peace and Conflict Studies, Foundations of Education, Pedagogy, Peace Education, Race, Class and Gender
  SUNY Cortland

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