Gina Clayton-Johnson

Gina is a Black feminist organizer, writer, and founder and executive director of Essie Justice Group, the nation’s leading advocacy organization of women with incarcerated loved ones. She is the central architect of the BREATHE Act, and is a leader on the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table, a founding advisory council member of National Bail Out Collective, and a leading advocate for bail reform in California. Gina holds a JD from Harvard Law School. While at Mesa Refuge, Gina wrote about incarceration as a driver of the loneliness epidemic including lessons from organizing women with incarcerated loved ones and Black feminist institution builders.