Guest Jonathan Pinckney joined Stacie Freasier, Robert Tyrone Lilly, and Jim Crosby (pictured with KOOP Austin Commons Hour collective comrades Michelle Manning-Scott and John Hoffner) to kick off Season 2 of Nonviolent Austin Radio Hour.

Jonathan is a scholar of nonviolent resistance, democracy, and peacebuilding. He was formerly Director of Applied Research at the Horizons Project, where his work focused on how to resist democratic backsliding, and he was a Senior Researcher on Nonviolent Action for the United States Institute of Peace. He has conducted trainings with activists around the world and has been widely published in leading academic and popular outlets including Waging Nonviolence and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.