Crime Survivors-- Identity and Inspiration

Join co-host's Aqeela Sherrills and David Guizar for this weeks episode; Crime Survivors-- Identity & Inspiration. With our guest Shakyra Diaz; Shakyra is a strategist with extensive public policy and organizing experience grounded in authentic coalition building.  Shakyra plays a crucial leadership role in building the national membership of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice (CSSJ), leading the effort to develop online and offline platforms for organizing and community-building and coordinating efforts with Alliance for Safety and Justice’s campaigns. Shakyra joined ASJ in 2016 as the Regional Director for the Midwest region, where she provided leadership for advocacy campaigns in the Midwest, resulting in criminal justice reforms and the establishment of trauma recovery centers to help underserved crime survivors heal. We will discuss how the political identities of crime survivors have been leveraged to transform the victims of crime landscape; and uncover the inspirations behind joining the movement. 

Learn more by clicking the link below;

https://www.allianceforsafetyandjustice.org/who-we-are/#staff