Zachary Crow is a storyteller, filmmaker, poet, and activist dedicated to dismantling systems of oppression and building new futures.

 

After two years in Atlanta, living alongside and learning from homeless, incarcerated, and formerly incarcerated individuals, Zachary returned to Little Rock. There, he served as Executive Director of decARcerate, a grassroots movement focused on ending mass incarceration in Arkansas through education, legislation, and direct action. Under his leadership, decARcerate became a prominent voice in Arkansas’s abolition movement, advocating for policy changes, challenging the carceral state, and centering those directly impacted by the criminal justice system in every campaign, conversation, and strategy.

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With his partner, Elizabeth D'Angelo, Zachary co-founded Fireweed Creative. Inspired by the fireweed plant, known for its ability to thrive in disturbed areas and after wildfires, Fireweed Creative creates art, poetry, zines, books, videos, and audio that embody hope, resilience, and rebirth.

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Zachary is the author of two poetry chapbooks, 30 and Lilac. His debut full-length poetry collection, Dancing in the Eddies (2018), is described as an auto-biographical, pre-apocalyptic fever dream that explores the complexity and mundanity of life. His forthcoming books include
Burn It Down, a historical account of prisons, police, and protests in Arkansas, and Fireweed and Flint, a poetry collection that explores the dual task of tearing down oppressive systems while building something new.

Zachary co-hosts The Barber and Beauty Shop Radio Hour, a weekly social justice call-in show on KABF 88.3 with Judge Wendell Griffen. His documentary, We See No Enemy, tells five stories set against the backdrop of Israeli-occupied Palestine, offering an anthology of the West Bank and chronicling the conflict from voices often unheard.

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An ordained minister with New Millennium Church, a progressive, inclusive community rooted in Black Liberation Theology, Zachary occasionally preaches sermons that critique empire through socialist and anarchist lenses.