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Mays Smithwick

Mays Smithwick is a nuclear abolitionist and an anticolonial activist. Mays completed their undergraduate degree in the Global Studies department at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts in 2019, with a double minor in Philosophy and Cultural Studies. In 2023, they received a Master of Arts degree from the Department of Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement at NYU.


Articles by Mays Smithwick

Antinuclear activist march to mark the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in New York, January 20, 2023. - The TPNW, the first legally binding international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, entered into force on January 22, 2021. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Nuclear deterrence is the existential threat, not the nuclear ban treaty

By Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Xanthe Hall, Ira Helfand, Mays Smithwick | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons