Human Justice, in practice.
Four programs. One equation. Each initiative directs resources to people and to the repairing and healing of communities — not to systems reform.
Heal. Transform. Build. Learn.
- Heal · Land-based healing
NuLegacy
We connect Black, Indigenous, Queer and Trans New Yorkers whose lives have been devastated by incarceration to the regenerative power of nature and land.
We purchased 20 acres of land in Enfield, New York. We are calling it “The People’s Land.” It will be the site for The NuLegacy Center, which will allow people to live, heal, and thrive in nature. We know that connection to land and nature disrupts the cycles of violence, fear, and trauma caused by the prison industrial complex.
- 100+
- system-impacted families introduced to camping, farming and land-based healing
- 20
- acres of “The People’s Land” in Enfield, NY
- 2
- year residency at WILDSEED connecting violence interrupters and NYCHA leaders to land
- Transform · Interrupting the arrest and incarceration cycle
Village Takeback
We engage, train and hire formerly incarcerated people to design and implement community-led public safety and conflict mediation — without police or prosecution.
We interrupt the arrest and incarceration cycle by engaging, training and hiring community members in community-led public safety and conflict mediation that does not involve police and prosecution. We advocate for community members to call on our staff when they have a conflict or need help.
- 150+
- youth and young adults diverted from the criminal legal system
- 300+
- people given post-bail support: food, housing, rent, care, work
- 15
- “We Make Us Safe” trainings on community-led responses to harm
- Build · Building community generational wealth
Village Apprenticeship Program
We invest in the growth of BIPOC-owned small businesses and help them hire from our local community — transforming the employer-employee relationship toward co-ownership.
We are transforming the employer-employee relationship to emphasize co-ownership and community generational wealth over individual profits and worker exploitation.
- 70%
- of the first cohort secured part- or full-time work after a 6-month apprenticeship
- $30,000
- in seed investments to three Black-owned businesses
- 3
- neighborhoods: East New York, Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy
- Learn · Transforming communities through political education
Communiversity
An inclusive, barrier-free, no-cost learning space for the community — building resilience, agility and leadership rooted in cooperation, not rugged individualism.
Communiversity uplifts the tremendous knowledge that exists in communities and invites community members to build and share their own courses on the things they care about. We also provide courses taught by leading activists, organizers, academics, researchers, and public intellectuals that community members otherwise wouldn’t be able to access.
- 19
- courses taught, from People’s History to Mutual Aid
- 18
- instructors — organizers, scholars and artists
- $0
- cost to learn. Barrier-free, always.
Resource the workLife without freedom is no life, even if the freedom we seek has never been known to us in this lifetime.