DEANA LEWIS

Deana is one of the founding members of Just Practice Collaborative, whose purpose is to build communities’ capacities to respond to intimate partner violence and sexual assault without relying on state-based systems. She also participates in the work of Love & Protect and Survived & Punished, two prison abolition collectives dedicated to supporting transgender and cisgender women, trans men, and gender-expansive folks of color who are harmed and criminalized by interpersonal and state violence. Finally, Deana is a Senior Associate Director at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois Chicago.

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