Essie Justice Group

We honor the transformative leadership and care of women with incarcerated loved ones this #InternationalWomensDay and every day. ✊🏾🧡

Join Essie Justice Group's FREE Healing to Advocacy Program to access a safe space of belonging, healing, leadership development, and life-long community!

You can sign up anytime, but sign up today if you want to join the cohorts starting later this month: essiejusticegroup.org/nominate 🧡

This #BlackHistoryMonth, and always, we celebrate Black women, whose love, joy, leadership, and vision holds a legacy of freedom. 🧡✊🏾

We look forward to sharing more of our campaign, organizing, and policy developments from our Member Summit—stay tuned! 🧡🫂 (6/6)

On Sisterhood: “Standing among the Redwoods, I realized each tree is different, but together they create a beautiful forest. That’s us [Essie Sisters]. We’re all different people with our own stories, and it’s our uniqueness joined together that makes change possible.” — Kimmie, Essie Sister 🧡 (5/6)

Why we fight: “When a loved one is incarcerated, a part of you goes with them. That pain is what pushes me to lead, to fight for a system that treats our people as human beings who deserve dignity. This isn’t abstract for me, it’s my life.” — Regina, Essie Sister 🧡 (4/6)

On wellness: “We can’t keep organizing if we’re burnt out. Healing is not optional if we want our leadership to last. In a world that feels on fire, healing and grief work keep us from spiraling and remind us what we’re organizing toward.” — Hien, Essie Sister 🧡 (3/6)

On our power: “There’s power in unity. In a world that tries to pit us against each other, it’s powerful for us as women with incarcerated loved ones to get into the same room and identify the intersections of our fight.” — Santara, Essie Sister 🧡 (2/6)

Here are some member reflections from Essie's Our Duty to Win 2026 Member Summit that brought together 100+ Essie Sisters from across the country to disrupt the systems that try to divide, isolate, and harm us and our communities! ✊🏾🧡 (1/6)

New year, same goal: combat the narratives around incarceration that harm women and our incarcerated loved ones.

Tune into Pillars to learn more about our lived experiences, available now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts: pillarspod.com

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If you are a woman with a currently or formerly incarcerated loved one, you can find healing, life-long community, and belonging at Essie. 🫂💜

Connect with us: pillarspod.com/untold

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If you are a woman who has a currently or formerly incarcerated loved one, you belong at Essie Justice Group. 🧡🫂 Take five minutes to nominate yourself or someone you know to our free Healing to Advocacy Program!

essiejusticegroup.org/nominate

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Give the gift of life-long community, mutual support, and leadership development by nominating yourself or a woman you know to Essie Justice Group’s Healing to Advocacy Program. essiejusticegroup.org/nominate #GivingTuesday(4/4)

Shop our ‘Seen’ t-shirt collab with For Everyone Collective. A portion of the proceeds of every sale directly supports the work women with incarcerated loved ones do to fill in the gaps where society fails. bit.ly/essiexforeveryone #GivingTuesday (3/4)

Fuel our Healing to Advocacy Program, leadership development trainings, and Immediate Needs Program, with an end-of-year gift. bit.ly/resource-leadership #GivingTuesday (2/4)

Curious about how to support the care-centered leadership of women with incarcerated loved ones this #GivingTuesday? 🤔🧡 (1/4)

93 New Care-Driven Leaders! - Essie Justice Our world is calling for leaders who can channel their lived experience into real change. This fall, 93 women and gender-expansive people with incarcerated loved ones answered that call by coming toge...

We're still feeling the love and power from our historic Fall 2025 Healing to Advocacy Graduation season! 🎉🧡 Check out our latest blog for highlights from our biggest Healing to Advocacy cohort season to date.

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We're hiring! Join a team of dedicated organizers who are working to develop the care-driven leadership of women with incarcerated loved ones that we need now more than ever.

Visit the link in bio for our open positions.

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"What I know to be true is this—everyone in this room carries the weight of injustice... But in carrying that weight, we are also the blueprint for change." — Crystal, Fall 2025 Inland Empire Healing to Advocacy Graduate🧡💐 (2/2)

We closed out our Fall 2025 Healing to Advocacy Graduation season in LA, welcoming 54 graduates from our Pasadena, Compton, and Inland Empire cohorts into our loving and powerful Sisterhood! Stay tuned for a special recap of our historic graduation season! #SisterhoodIsPowerful (1/2)

Want to improve the mental health of women with incarcerated loved ones? #EndMassIncarceration ✊🏾

No matter if it’s a shutdown, lapse, or partial payment—any impact to #SNAP is deeply felt by system-impacted Black and Brown families. #GovernmentShutdown

Thank you to our Advocacy Spotlights Melonie Griffiths of @freedom2thrive.bsky.social and Paris Hatcher of #BlackFeministFuture for grounding us in how Sisterhood is a vital strategy for overcoming isolation and creating avenues for collective transformation. (3/3)

Our Sister Panel was truly special, featuring a grandmother, mother, and daughter who shared the intergenerational impact of incarceration and how the program fostered deeper healing and connection within their family. (2/3)

Congratulations to our Fall 2025 National Healing to Advocacy graduates! Our 59th cohort graduation welcomed 23 women with incarcerated loved ones from 12 different states into our Sisterhood. #SisterhoodIsPowerful #Healing #Advocacy #Graduation 🧡💐 (1/3)

"Healing to Advocacy is about us healing and breaking ourselves from the chains that tried to hold us back." — Felicia, Fall 2025 Oakland Healing to Advocacy Graduate🧡 💐

Introducing Paris Hatcher of Black Feminist Future and Melonie Griffiths of Freedom to Thrive: Essie’s Advocacy Spotlight Speakers for this weekend's Fall 2025 National Healing to Advocacy Graduation! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🙌🏾🧡

We can't wait to hear the wisdom they'll share with us!

We kicked off our Fall 2025 Healing to Advocacy Graduation season in Oakland, welcoming our 58th cohort of 16 women with incarcerated loved ones into our loving and powerful Sisterhood! Stay tuned as we celebrate more this weekend during our National graduation ceremony. (1/2)

Our staff came together in Oakland for an annual #StaffRetreat! We focused on skill-building, power-based campaigning, and organizing strategies to deepen connection in this political moment. Thank you to Chantá Parker for facilitating and bringing deep expertise to our space! 🧡

Last weekend at #MentalWealthAlliance and @iheartradio.bsky.social’s #MentalWealthExpo, we hosted Power & Connection: The Impact of Incarceration on Mental Health—a breakout session exploring how incarceration isolates women, harms our mental health, and ways we can combat isolation. 🫂🧡