United We Dream
United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country, creating welcoming spaces for young people—regardless of immigration status—to support, engage, and empower them to make their voices heard and win. Over 60% of members are womxn and 20% identify as LGBTQ, made up of fearless youth advocating to improve the lives of […]
National Immigrant Justice Center
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) works to establish and defend the legal rights of immigrants regardless of background and transform the immigration system to one that affords equal opportunity for all. Founded in 1984 as the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center by a small group of attorneys providing representation to people from Haiti and Central […]
Sins Invalid
Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centered and led by disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority, and queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people. The organization’s work explores themes of disabled embodiment and the world around us, developing provocative performances where paradigms of “normal” […]
RAINN
RAINN is the nation’s largest anti–sexual violence organization and the operator of the National Sexual Assault Hotline, providing critical, survivor-centered support to millions of people impacted by sexual violence. Grounded in the belief that survivors deserve care, dignity, and justice, RAINN works to end sexual violence through crisis intervention, public education, policy advocacy, and institutional […]
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
SisterSong is a Southern-based, national membership organization dedicated to advancing reproductive justice by transforming the policies, systems, and cultural conditions that shape the reproductive lives of marginalized communities. Grounded in the leadership and lived experiences of women of color, SisterSong builds powerful networks to challenge intersecting forms of oppression that limit bodily autonomy, family integrity, […]
A Call to Men
A Call to Men is a global violence prevention organization dedicated to redefining manhood in ways that promote emotional health, relational accountability, and gender justice. By challenging rigid norms that teach boys and men to suppress emotion, dominate others, or equate strength with control, the organization addresses the root causes of gender-based violence and its […]
Survived & Punished
Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national abolitionist organization led by survivors of domestic and sexual violence who are criminalized for defending their lives. The organization emerged from the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign (2013–2017), a global effort to free Marissa Alexander, a Black mother of three sentenced to decades in prison for surviving and […]
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance is an abolitionist organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex and building sustainable alternatives to punishment, policing, and surveillance. The organization names the prison industrial complex as a web of political, economic, and cultural forces that treat incarceration as a solution to social problems—while reinforcing racial, economic, and social inequality. Through education, […]
Zehr Institute
The Zehr Institute’s Restorative Justice Diversion Huddle is a national community of practice that brings together restorative justice practitioners engaged in diversion work across the United States. Designed as a monthly, drop-in space, the Huddle connects legal partners and community-based organizations working in pre-arrest, pre-charge, and pre-plea contexts to share knowledge, challenges, and emerging practices. […]
The Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project is a national organization working to transform the U.S. criminal legal system by advancing policies that reduce mass incarceration and promote justice, dignity, and safety. In response to decades of punitive sentencing laws that have driven an unprecedented expansion of the prison population, the organization challenges the assumption that incarceration produces public […]
WhyHunger
WhyHunger is a global organization working to end hunger by advancing the human right to nutritious food and supporting community-led solutions rooted in justice. Founded in 1975 by musician Harry Chapin and radio DJ Bill Ayres, the organization emerged from the belief that hunger is not caused by scarcity, but by systemic inequities—racism, economic injustice, […]
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a worker-led human rights organization rooted in farmworker community organizing and internationally recognized for advancing labor rights, gender justice, and anti–human trafficking protections in agriculture. Emerging from decades of grassroots organizing, CIW has reshaped how accountability operates in global food supply chains by centering the voices and leadership […]
Food First
Food First was founded in 1975 by Joseph Collins and Frances Moore Lappé—author of the revolutionary bestseller Diet for a Small Planet—to end the injustices that cause hunger. Since its first book, Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, the organization has published over 60 books and hundreds of articles and research reports while responding […]
Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned through his leadership of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his direction, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, […]
NDN COLLECTIVE
A powerful Indigenous-led organization working to restore Indigenous power and sovereignty through strategic organizing, activism, grantmaking, and narrative change. NDN Collective recognizes that Indigenous communities themselves hold the solutions to challenges they face, providing resources and support for Indigenous-determined pathways forward. Their work is grounded in three core principles: the interconnectedness of all things, Indigenous […]
Tarana Burke
Tarana J. Burke has been working at the intersection of racial justice, arts and culture, anti-violence and gender equity for nearly three decades, fueled by a commitment to interrupt systemic issues disproportionately impacting marginalized people, particularly sexual violence against Black women and girls, creating and leading campaigns that have brought awareness to the harmful legacies […]