Ye Qing Jiang is a queer, genderqueer, Chinese American raised in the Bay Area, nurtured in San Diego, and currently finding roots in the PNW. Ye Qing’s background spans queer/trans people of color community building, basement kombucha brewing, fostering educational equity with and for youth of color, Thai food server/spring roll wrangling, and harm reduction domestic violence advocacy with and for houseless survivors. Ye Qing enters this work as a survivor of interpersonal and systemic violence. They bring with them presence, clarity, humility, curiosity, and creativity when imagining worlds where we are all integral to one another’s healing. Ye Qing graduated from the University of California San Diego with a double BA in Writing & Gender Studies as well as the University of Washington with an MA in Cultural Studies. Outside of this work, Ye Qing enjoys mall-ratting with friends, exploring recipes off their TikTok feed, weightlifting, and going on hot-girl walks.
Briana Herman-Brand has been working with youth and adults for 20 years at the intersections of interpersonal healing and community-based social change...
Calvin Burnap is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington state and works as a psychotherapist seeing individuals, couples, and families in private practice...
Clara (she/her/ella) is a queer, neurodivergent AfroSalvi living in diaspora. She comes to this work after a lifetime of navigating systems of oppression and violence...
Danny Waxwing comes to Collective Justice having been immersed in prison-based advocacy projects and prisoner support work for the past ten years...
Devitta builds communities of healing and support for people most affected by violence and elevates those voices in policy discussions for community safety...
Dolphy has a long history of organizing with and for communities most impacted by oppression. He was incarcerated at the age of 16 and released at 37...
Florence or Flo (they/she) is a queer Chinese American born and raised in Seattle, occupied ancestral lands of the Duwamish, Coast Salish people. Their background...
Grady Mitchell is a HEAL Circle Facilitator with CJ. He is also a Facilitator and Master Trainer for Roots of Success (RoS), an Environmental Literacy and Job Training...
Kathei, affectionately known as Coach Kathei, is an ordained minister, Certified Life Coach, Author and Spiritual Advisor with a passionate mission to empower women...
Isaura Jiménez Guerra (they/them/elle) is a queer Mexican-American non-binary femme born on occupied Tongva land; and has now lived and worked on the...
Karissa is a queer Latina living on the unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish people. A recent graduate of UW’s Masters in Social Work, Karissa is starting to...
Metasabia was born in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. Her journey, like many, is full of broken pieces, love, and transformation. She traversed oceans, lands, and seas, to reach Seattle....
Orlando Aimes has witnessed firsthand the mass incarceration of Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other youth of Color and, focuses on dismantling the ...
Priya Nair immigrated to the U.S. when she was almost nineteen years old. Her world and work are shaped by this experience, and she imagines a future where all people...
Priya Rai is a queer, mixed race, chronically ill prison abolitionist who is dreaming wildly and fighting to win. She comes to this work as a survivor of many forms of...
Stacy Torres is a politicized healer, cultural strategist, consultant, and a somatic practitioner. As a cis-queer femme Xican@ with a physical disability, she has spent...
Tally (she/they) is excited and honored to join the Collective Justice team as an Intern this 2021-2022 year. She joins Collective Justice for her field placement in...
Teddy McGlynn-Wright currently directs the Trauma Informed Schools Train the Trainer project in New Orleans. he is also a Belonging-Based Facilitator, politicized...
Ye Qing Jiang is a queer, genderqueer, Chinese American raised in the Bay Area, nurtured in San Diego, and currently finding roots in the PNW. Ye Qing’s background...
