Go to home page
Black Voices For Black Justice Fund
Back To Awardees
Criminal Justice Reform
Miami, FL
3
Funding Round

Wakumi Douglas

Co-Founder and Executive Director of the S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective Miami, FL Award Year: 2021

Wakumi Douglas is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective, a nonprofit on a mission to mobilize systems-involved girls, femmes, and TGNC youth of color – Black, Brown, and Indigenous – to interrupt cycles of state violence, poverty, and oppression through arts-based activism, healing, and peer leadership. S.O.U.L. is an intergenerational organization with a deeply ingrained learning culture and restorative practices at its heart. As the daughter of an undocumented immigrant who served over 33 years in a New Jersey prison, Wakumi has dedicated her life to building leadership among youth most impacted by mass incarceration and other oppressive systems. She previously served as a clinical supervisor for the alternative to incarceration program for youth at the Center for Community Alternatives in Brooklyn, NY. As a 2017 NoVo Foundation Move to End Violence Fellow, Wakumi lectured widely on issues related to mass incarceration, trauma, wellness, gender-based systemic disparities and healing for activists. Recently awarded a Soros Social Justice Advocacy Fellowship, she is currently examining and promoting healing justice trends and tools to end mass incarceration.

Recent News
  • Wakumi is using her award to expand efforts to mobilize justice systems involving girls, femmes, and TGNC youth of color to interrupt cycles of state violence, poverty, and oppression.

  • Wakumi spoke to SHEEO.World Podcast about the crisis in our community, nation, and globally for girls of color, indigenous girls, girls in the global south and non-binary youth.

Keep up by keeping informed