Kelly (they/them) believes in the unrelenting power of human connection and community. They are a queer, jewish, anti-zionist and anti-imperialist organizer located in Seattle, committed to liberation and fighting for a free Palestine. Kelly is grounded in this work as a continuation of ancestral resistance and sees liberation work as integral to their intergenerational healing. Currently Kelly is the Operations and Community Resource Manager with University Beyond Bars and is also a sponsor for the queer support group at Twin Rivers Unit in the Monroe Correctional Complex. They have been working with incarcerated communities since 2018 and hope to one day live in a world where prisons no longer exist, from Seattle to Gaza. Kelly finds the most joy as a dog parent to their sweet (though endearingly poorly behaved) pitbull Ruby, and loves to spend time snowboarding, swimming in lake Washington, or hanging with their wonderful friends.

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, trying to survive a world that continuously tries to silence her. Born and raised in South Central L.A to Salvadoran refugees, Clara brings her lived-experience and passion for a better, safer world into her healing practice.

Position: Member Danny Waxwing has been immersed in prison-based advocacy projects and support work for over ten years, and brings a big yearning for that work to be more grounded in genuine relationship. Prior to joining Collective Justice, Danny was deeply engaged with the work of the Prison Doula Project and the reproductive justice movement, and he is currently an attorney heading up the Trans in Prison Justice Project at Disability Rights Washington. Danny first became involved with Collective Justice as a facilitator for the HEAL program. He hopes to help cultivate more spaces where people are collectively grappling with the hardest of questions around tending to harm and accountability, and to generate more narratives that hold the full complexity of our life experiences and identities. He feels lucky to be in the presence of such deeply loving and intentionally challenging work. 

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. Metasabia has a deep affinity for and experience in peacebuilding and has collaborated with people in Afghanistan, Rwanda, France, and many parts of the U.S. to support healing and transformation in the aftermath of war, migration, and violence.  Metasabia is drawn to this work because she believes in collective liberation, deepening and building relationships, skills, capacity, creativity, and joy, alongside communities most impacted by harm, violence, and imprisonment. She does this work in remembrance of Selamawit Moges, mother and ancestor.

Tracy L. Stewart is mindfulness-based mental health therapist, wellness educator, end of life care provider, and healing justice activist. Tracy co-founded Gathering Roots Wellness with Nikki Chau, with the intention of creating a place where people can experience and learn sustaining wellbeing practices steeped within medicine of the Earth. Her role at Collective Justice has been to facilitate and support healing practices with participants. Currently, Tracy is supporting BIPoC grassroots and nonprofits with resource mobilization, grant making, and justice-centered organizational development. She sees her role in community collaborating on safe spaces for BIPoC folks share in healing and break binds to colonial capitalism that cause scarcity mindset, values breach, and activism burnout.

Chloe Huber is a member of Collective Justice and South King County & Eastside Mutual Aid, and a participant in survivor-led and survivor-stewarded healing and arts spaces. Her experience is in collaborating on community-based healing spaces for persons who have experienced gender-based violence, grounded in a value of meeting the essential needs of shelter and food first. Chloe is a member of API Chaya’s RISE! Circle, if you identify as a BIPOC and/or API survivor of sexual violence, abuse, or assault, and are interested in healing and building political power through creative arts, please reach out!

Elena [they/she] holds immense gratitude for their teachers and the lineages of Restorative, Transformative & Healing Justice. As a queer, white survivor of interpersonal harm raised by a system-impacted family, Elena fights to dismantle systems of oppression while practicing radical self-accountability as to not enliven or uphold those violences. They show up in space with curiosity, presence and pre-figurative joy to build collective care. Elena began with CJ in 2020 coordinating the Rapid Response program, centering the agency and self-determination of survivors while responding to the death-making conditions of state abandonment. They are a current member of the Community Education Team. Elena loves dancing, sea creatures & saxophones.