National Black Womens Justice Institute

The National Black Women’s Justice Institute is a Black women-led national nonprofit that leads research, capacity-building, and public education to advance healing-centered policies and practices that dismantle pathways to criminalization and confinement and increase opportunities and safety for Black women and girls who are directly impacted by the criminal and juvenile legal systems. 

​We do this work to end the harm inflicted upon Black women and girls by these systems and to ensure that every Black woman and girl who is impacted is safe and may heal from their trauma, reconnect with their families and communities, achieve economic prosperity, and have every opportunity to live out their dreams.

​We envision a society that respects, values, and uplifts Black women and girls and upholds healing—not punishment—as justice.