Bay Area Community Advocates
Black and Pink / Flying Over Walls: a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.
California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP): monitors and challenges the abusive conditions inside California women’s prisons, fights for the release of women and trans prisoners, and supports women and trans people in their process of re-entering the community.
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice (CCIJ): utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberation of immigrants in detention in California.
California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (CFASC): organizing against solitary confinement and for prisoners rights.
Causa Justa / Just Cause (CJJC) (San Francisco, Alameda): grassroots organization building community leadership to achieve justice for low-income residents.
Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA): aims to deter torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other severe human rights abuses around the world through innovative litigation, policy, and transitional justice strategies.
Community Works (Alameda): seeks to transform justice through programs and policy rooted in humanity and healing.
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) (Alameda): supporting young people to lead the way in transforming our communities by investing in their healing, aspirations, and activism.
Critical Resistance Oakland (Alameda): grassroots organizing for Anti-Policing, Anti-Imprisonment, and “Inside-Outside” correspondence work with imprisoned people.
Defenders (San Francisco): a public defender initiated storytelling project with urgent stories told through the voice of fathers, daughters, brothers, siblings, mothers, sons and sisters.
Disability Rights California: protecting and advancing the rights of individuals with disabilities across California through litigation, advocacy, and resource provision.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights: works locally, statewide, and nationally to shift resources away from prisons and punishment and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
Essie Justice Group: brings women together to heal, build collective power, and drive social change.
Fixin’ San Mateo County (San Mateo): a local grassroots organization working to enact effective, independent civilian oversight of the County Sheriff’s Office.
Hospitality House (San Francisco): provides peer-based and culturally sensitive employment, shelter, and wellness programs for residents of San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Sixth Street Corridor, and Mid-Market neighborhoods struggling with homelessness, poverty, and the range of other socioeconomic issues facing residents here.
Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT or HOT Team) (San Francisco): DHSH works to engage and stabilize the most vulnerable individuals by voluntarily placing them into shelter and housing or connecting with other available resources.
Immigrant Advocate's Network, National Immigration Legal Services Directory: a directory for immigration legal services providers by state, county, or detention facility.
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara): provides free legal advice and representation to individuals who identify as living with mental health disabilities.
National Lawyer’s Guild (San Francisco): a network of public interest and human rights lawyer activists working within the legal system.
Participatory Defense Network (Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo): community organizing for people facing charges, their families, and communities to impact the outcomes of cases and transform the landscape of power in the court system.
Prison Law Office: protecting the constitutional rights of people behind bars through advocacy, education and litigation.
Silicon Valley DeBug (Santa Clara): a community organizing, advocacy, and a multimedia storytelling organization.
Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition (Alameda): a membership base of women and trans people of all genders who have been incarcerated, have experienced violence, poverty, or living/ working on the streets; building a movement to support each other, shift power, and lead systems and policy change.
TGI Justice Project (San Francisco): builds voice, power and leadership among transgender, gender variant and intersex people–inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers–creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom centering Black TGI people.
UnCommon Law (Alameda): supports people navigating California's discretionary parole process through trauma-informed legal representation, mental health counseling, legislative and policy advocacy, and in-prison programming led by those who have been through the process themselves.
Urban Alchemy (San Francisco): making public areas safer by addressing trauma, addiction and mental illness with street outreach workers who know how to de-escalate a conflict, how to save someone from an overdose, how to build trust with a person who is afraid or suicidal, and how to teach people to care for their surroundings when sometimes they struggle to even care for themselves.
Urban Peace Movement (Alameda): builds youth leadership in Oakland to transform the culture and social conditions that lead to community violence & mass incarceration in communities of color.
Young Women’s Freedom Center (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, Santa Clara): provides support, mentorship, training, employment, and advocacy to young women and trans youth of all genders in California who have grown up in poverty, experienced the juvenile legal and foster care systems, have had to survive living and working on the streets, and who have experienced significant violence in their lives.