Emi Kane has a background as a community organizer, educator, and journalist. She is a former National Steering Committee member for INCITE, a women of color anti-violence network, where she is a current member of the Media Working Group and works on the digital archives and oral history project. In Oakland, she has been leading community forums on violence prevention and alternatives to street-level surveillance and policing. She also works with educators and students to develop popular education tools that address the intersections between surveillance and social movements, focusing on the ways in which those issues impact communities of color, poor people, and LGBTQ communities.