Shira Hassan

Transformative Justice Fellow (TJ Help Desk)

Shira Hassan (she/her) is the former executive director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project, an organizing and grassroots movement building project led by and for young people of color that have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. A lifelong harm reductionist and prison abolitionist, Shira has been working on community accountability for nearly 25 years and has helped young people of color start their own organizing projects across the country.

She is the founder and principal consultant for Just Practice, a capacity-building project for organizations and community members working at the intersection of transformative justice, harm, reduction, and collective liberation. Shira is the co-author of Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators.