by operations | Jul 16, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Art Credit Kay Zeiss; Commentary by Krupa Bharodiya Ashanti McClean is 33 years old and has spent over a decade living openly as a trans woman. Before her incarceration, she was already receiving gender-affirming care and has been on hormones for years. She accessed...
by operations | Jul 16, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Dawn Blagrove Investing in people is the answer to so many social Ills. The carceral system, fraught with systemic and institutional racism, only works to perpetuate inequities and economic deficiencies. Emancipate NC and scores of other advocacy...
by operations | Jul 16, 2025 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Executive Director Dawn Blagrove will speak at this powerful rally on July 21
by operations | Jul 2, 2025 | Emancipate NC News
In our last update on June 19th, we shared exciting progress on the CARES Alternative Response Program—a community-led effort to ensure mental health crises are met with care, not criminalization. There’s been tremendous support for this program—but we must keep...
by operations | Jul 2, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
We’re thrilled to share that on July 2nd, Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman and the Recidivism Reduction Education Program Services (RREPS) unveiled their second Mobile Crisis Response Unit! This Mobile Recidivism Reduction Resource Center travels across North Carolina,...
by operations | Jul 2, 2025 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
Emancipate NC Organizer Toia Potts was honored to speak during the Opening Fireside Chat at the Ujima Collective Think Tank Convening, hosted by the National Adoption Association in Washington, DC. Held at the Salamander Hotel, this powerful gathering on June 20th...
