We hope you will join us at the Massachusetts Bail Fund Annual Fundraiser!
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This year we celebrate not only the hundreds of people we've freed with your support, but also the community partnerships we've built in this movement to end pretrial supervision and detention.
2019 was a year of enormous growth, both in operations and in community engagement, for the bail fund. We hired our first full time employee to run the logistical work of posting 120-140 bails a month with our team of 40 local volunteers. Along with our partners at Families for Justice as Healing and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, we continued running CourtWatch MA, lifting up the truth of what actually happens in Massachusetts courts. We continued to advocate against regressive changes to pre-trial detention policies through the Bail Reform Legislative Commission. We deepened our community partnerships both within Massachusetts and nationally through the National Bail Fund Network and the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls.
We look forward to updating our movement family on what this last year has been like and what we are planning for the future.
2019 was a year of enormous growth, both in operations and in community engagement, for the bail fund. We hired our first full time employee to run the logistical work of posting 120-140 bails a month with our team of 40 local volunteers. Along with our partners at Families for Justice as Healing and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, we continued running CourtWatch MA, lifting up the truth of what actually happens in Massachusetts courts. We continued to advocate against regressive changes to pre-trial detention policies through the Bail Reform Legislative Commission. We deepened our community partnerships both within Massachusetts and nationally through the National Bail Fund Network and the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls.
We look forward to updating our movement family on what this last year has been like and what we are planning for the future.
Featured Speaker
Ayana Aubourg is the Director of Programs at Families for Justice as Healing, a grassroots abolitionist organization whose mission is to end the incarceration of women and girls. She is Co-Founder of Sisters Unchained, an organization dedicated to the collective leadership, healing, and creative expression of young women affected by parental incarceration in Boston.
Ayana is also a Reimagining Communities fellow for the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, where she conducts and supervises participatory research with women and families most affected by the criminal legal system. Her work on the Listening Tour, a participatory research and base-building project led by formerly incarcerated women and women with incarcerated loved ones, captures the experiences, expertise, and solutions of women who live in the most incarcerated neighborhoods in Massachusetts.
She is deeply committed to, and guided by, a community of daughters with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents in Boston and co-organizes healing spaces for families with incarcerated loved ones while supporting their advocacy.
Ayana is also a Reimagining Communities fellow for the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, where she conducts and supervises participatory research with women and families most affected by the criminal legal system. Her work on the Listening Tour, a participatory research and base-building project led by formerly incarcerated women and women with incarcerated loved ones, captures the experiences, expertise, and solutions of women who live in the most incarcerated neighborhoods in Massachusetts.
She is deeply committed to, and guided by, a community of daughters with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents in Boston and co-organizes healing spaces for families with incarcerated loved ones while supporting their advocacy.
Full dinner, childcare, conversation, and entertainment will be provided. We can't wait to see you!
If you cannot come on December 8th, but would like to support our work, please contribute here.