OAKLAND, CA, September 14, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Casper Cendre has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Casper Cendre is the co-founder and executive director of Abolition Inc., an Oakland-based nonprofit whose programs include A.B.O. Comix, Abolition Archive, Teleway 411 and Flying Over Walls. Since co-founding A.B.O. Comix in 2017, Cendre has helped transform a grassroots punk publishing project into a nationally recognized platform for incarcerated LGBTQ+ artists, writers and organizers.

Through publishing, exhibitions, correspondence, public programming and artist support, Cendre's work creates opportunities for people in prison to share their art and experiences directly with the public. They have developed long-term relationships with hundreds of incarcerated artists and writers across the United States and have overseen the publication of more than 50 books and zines.

The organization's publications span memoir, poetry, fiction, comics and visual art. They include the decade-long-running "A Queer Prisoner's Anthology" series, individual books by incarcerated artists and writers, and special projects such as "Confined Before COVID19: A Pandemic Anthology by LGBTQ Prisoners." Rather than presenting incarcerated people only through statistics or stories told on their behalf, these projects allow contributors to speak in their own voices, develop public bodies of work and build relationships with readers outside prison.

Cendre's commitment to this work began through personal correspondence. Many of their closest friends are currently incarcerated, and years of letters, collect calls and visits have shaped both their life and their understanding of advocacy. They credit these relationships, along with the support of their parents and partner, with sustaining them through the challenges of building a community-based nonprofit.

Before entering nonprofit leadership full time, Cendre worked in publishing, literary editing, retail administration, animal care and web design. They began their professional career as a publishing associate with Montezuma Publishing and later served as an editor of "Pacific Review" literary magazine. These experiences gave them practical knowledge of publishing, design and organizational management that later became central to A.B.O. Comix and Abolition Archive.

Cendre earned a Bachelor of Arts in English language and literature from San Diego State University in 2013 and an Associate of Arts in liberal arts and sciences from Grossmont College in 2011. Their education strengthened an enduring interest in storytelling, independent publishing and the ways language can either reinforce or challenge social exclusion.

In addition to their work with Abolition Inc., Cendre serves on the board of directors of the Justice Arts Coalition. They have facilitated groups at the San Diego LGBT Community Center, worked with the former Bay Area chapter of Black and Pink, which is known as Flying Over Walls, and volunteered with Critical Resistance. Across these roles, their work has focused on LGBTQ+ communities, prison correspondence, creative expression and alternatives to punishment-based systems.

In 2025, Cendre was selected as a Galaxy Leaders Fellow, joining a cohort of organizers directly affected by or working to transform the criminal legal system. Their additional recognitions include being named a YBCA 100 honoree, receiving the Alicia Kester LGBTQ Creative Award, recognition from Prism Comics and honors for the podcast "Teleway 411." Their publishing work has also received an Ignatz Award nomination for Outstanding Anthology. In a recognition of a somewhat less conventional variety, Cendre was canonized as a saint by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2023, named "Saint Casper the Co-Conspirator, Transcendent Liberator of Ideas & Images and Patron Saint of Art as Abolition."

Cendre also co-founded "Teleway 411," a podcast and media project built around conversations with incarcerated LGBTQ+ people recorded through prison telephone systems. The project has received recognition for expanding whose voices are heard in audio storytelling and for preserving firsthand accounts that might otherwise remain inaccessible to the public.

Born in San Diego, Cendre now lives in Oakland with their partner, the Bay Area's best photorealism artist Bretty Baumgart, and their two cats, Binx and Felix.

Through Abolition Archive, Cendre is now developing a public digital repository of artwork, biographies, publications and records of achievement created by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. The project is intended both to preserve abolitionist cultural history and to help artists establish professional portfolios that remain accessible during incarceration and after release.

Future plans include expanding the archive's educational resources, publishing additional literary and academic works, creating more opportunities for incarcerated artists to exhibit and sell their work, and documenting the experiences of queer and transgender people within movements against imprisonment.

At the center of Cendre's work is a straightforward belief: people in prison are not abstractions, statistics or cautionary tales. They are artists, writers, friends and collaborators whose work deserves to be encountered on its own terms. Through publishing and long-term relationship building, Cendre continues to create spaces where those connections can take root.

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