Senior Community Organizer
About the role
Essie Justice Group is building grassroots power to dismantle the US incarceration system, the most egregious creator of racial and gender injustice of our time. We are a loving and powerful community of women with incarcerated loved ones — including cisgender women, transgender women, formerly incarcerated women, gender expansive people, elders, and young people. After twelve years of building an active membership across California and beyond, Essie is deepening its base‑building and leadership development strategies with the 1 in 4 women with incarcerated loved ones to propel bold decarceration agendas nationwide. We seek to transform the criminal legal system and create a Black feminist future rooted in care, equity, community safety, and liberation. Essie is waging ever more ambitious campaigns to divest from state‑sponsored punitive control and invest in structures that support the self‑determination, freedom, and dignity of Black women and gender nonconforming people. In a period of continued organizational growth, Essie seeks a people‑oriented, adaptable, and highly motivated Senior Community Organizer to join us in building and implementing campaigns to upend systems of control and confinement. The Senior Community Organizer brings clarity to organizing strategy, rigor to tracking member engagement, and deep care to building a strong and connected membership base. They recruit women with incarcerated loved ones into Essie’s political home and steward their continued participation through meaningful organizing opportunities, leadership pathways, and campaign involvement. By building strong