Shira Hassan

Transformative Justice Fellow (TJ Help Desk)

Shira Hassan (she/her) is the co-founder of Just Practice Collaborative,  a capacity-building project for organizations and community members working at the intersection of transformative justice, harm, reduction, and collective liberation, and the former executive director of Young Women's Empowerment Project, an organizing and grassroots movement building project led by and for young people of color that have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. A lifelong harm reductionist and prison abolitionist, Shira has been working on community accountability for nearly 25 years and has helped young people of color start their own organizing projects across the country. She is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators with Mariame Kaba, and the author of Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction.