Larry Cushnie is a tenured faculty member at South Seattle College teaching political science and a faculty coordinator for the social science and cannabis programs. He earned his doctorate at the University of Washington and taught several courses across four departments at the Seattle campus.

Larry's research interests focus on radical American political resistance. His writing and teaching cover anarchism, social movements, labor activism, radical environmentalism, the carceral state, drug policy, and civil rights. When not engaged on campus, Larry is busy raising his weird twins, collecting records, playing pickleball, and enjoying live music.