Liz Kennedy is committed to building life-affirming futures that center care, justice, and healing. Rooted on Anishinaabe lands in Detroit, Liz draws on years of nonprofit leadership experience, from the NAACP to Allied Media Projects, alongside lived experience as a survivor and organizer. As Policy Advocate at the Detroit Justice Center, they work to remedy the harms of mass incarceration by advancing policy for racial justice, economic equity, and systemic solutions in housing, land use, and employment. Previously, as the founding Director of Care-Based Safety in Ypsilanti, they helped build a community-based crisis response program that prevents, responds to, and transforms crisis through care, not criminalization. Liz is also an artist, working across writing, filmmaking, and other mediums to orient us toward liberation. Guided by the belief that “care is the antidote to violence” (Saidiya Hartman), Liz is accountable to those most impacted by criminalization and state violence, and committed to creating the conditions where people and the planet can heal, grow, and flourish.