Devon is the Community Engagement Director at Collective Justice. He spent fifteen years in prison contributing to the wellness and uplifting of the incarcerated community. He is an experienced speaker and presenter with the Choices and Consequences program, working with students, at-risk youth, counselors, and educators. He also held many leadership positions in the Black Prisoners Caucus. He was a lead facilitator, organizer, coordinator, liaison between other organizations, groups, and communities within and outside prison. Devon has been an instrumental figure in the Concerned Lifers Organization where he presented at their yearly summits, worked with legislators, and various community organizations. He is a graduate of the HEAL program, a 54 week restorative justice circle for individuals who have contributed to and experienced serious harm. Devon also holds a Bachelor of Specialized Studies from Ohio University, which he received through his participation with University Beyond Bars.

Jess (she/her) is the contracts and grant manager working with the collective to envision change, support conveying impact, and manage resources to meet the needs of our vision and dreams. As a white, able-bodied, cis queer woman, she practices deep gratitude and care to be among people so dedicated to deep love, interdependence, and healing. As a community-oriented public health practitioner and a person impacted by interpersonal and state violence, she humbly works alongside those who have been intentionally marginalized and most impacted by systems of oppression to create pathways for healing, belonging, liberation, and accountability. She prioritizes lived experience as expertise; cultivating joy; growing individual and collective capacity; knowing and seeing people in their fullness; and centering the autonomy and healing of all. Jess received a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Washington. When not in front of a spreadsheet, Jess can be found delighting in the ordinary, reveling in nuance, tending to plants, riding her favorite anti-boredom machine (bike), weightlifting, and crafting. 

Ye Qing Jiang is a queer and genderqueer Chinese American survivor raised in the Bay Area, nurtured in San Diego, and currently finding roots in the PNW. Ye Qing’s background spans queer of color responses to intimate partner violence, fostering educational equity with/for queer youth of color, and harm reduction advocacy with/for houseless survivors of harm. They enter this work as a survivor of interpersonal and systemic harm. YQ brings with them presence, clarity, humility, curiosity, and creativity when imagining worlds where we are all integral to one another’s accountability. Ye Qing graduated from the University of California San Diego with a double BA in Writing & Gender Studies as well as University of Washington with an MA in Cultural Studies. Outside of this work, Ye Qing enjoys leaving this planet from time to time, exploring recipes off their TikTok feed, weightlifting, and going on silent walks.

Flo (they/she) is a queer Chinese American born and raised in Seattle, occupied ancestral lands of the Duwamish. Their background involves working with youth in age + spirit specifically around mentorship, education and social service navigation, and leadership development. They enter this work with a ton of care, a strong belief in people’s agency + honing on people’s creativity, and healing justice is an integral part of every social movement. Their vision for a world is where Black, Indigenous, and communities of color have the access and power to their full humanity. They are also a sponsor for the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Awareness Group at Stafford Creek Prison for the past 5 years doing political education but mainly supporting the leadership of the homies inside. Flo enjoys frolicking in the mountains, playing video games, eating their way around town, and martial arts training.