DC Justice Lab

🩷 Happy National Nonprofit Day!

Today, we're celebrating nonprofits and community organizations that do the work every day to make DC stronger, safer, and more just. We're proud to have worked alongside many organizations that bring expertise, lived experience, advocacy, and community power to this work.

The groups we’re shouting out today partnered with us to develop or endorse the 2026 Public Safety Policy Agenda.

👇🏾 Who’s your favorite DC nonprofit? Drop them in the comments so we can celebrate them too.

If your information is being shared, shouldn’t you know where it’s going? 👀

DC residents deserve transparency about how information moves between local and federal agencies.

There are important questions about what information is being shared, who has access to it, and under what circumstances. Those questions matter for privacy, civil liberties, and public trust.

Swipe through to understand what we know, what remains unclear, and why transparency matters.

📲 Share this post to help more DC residents understand what’s at stake.

Meet the 2026 Movement Mixer Host Committee. 🩷

Every year, the Movement Mixer brings people together to build a more just DC and this year, we’re making the room even bigger. ✊🏾✨

We’re grateful for our Board, our inaugural 2026 Host Committee, and the networks, energy, and support they’re bringing to the table.

Join us during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference for an evening of connection, conversation, and collective action in DC.

📅 September 17
🎟️ Tickets + sponsorship opportunities are available. 🔗 Get your ticket or learn more: https://dcjusticelab.org/movement-mixer/

Come connect. Come build. Come move the work forward. We’ll see you at the Movement Mixer!

Who is responsible for ensuring the humane treatment of people in DC Jail? Swipe to learn about the various DC agencies and bodies tasked with overseeing, supporting, or holding the correctional system accountable.

A heartfelt thank you to our Movement Mixer sponsors for investing in the work of DC Justice Lab. 🩷

We're especially grateful to our newest individual sponsors, Jason Downs and Derek & Chaia Morgan, for their generous support. Your investment helps make this event—and the work beyond it—possible.

Every sponsor helps strengthen the movement for a more just DC. Whether you're an organization, a business, or an individual who believes in this work, your support makes a meaningful difference.

There's still time to get involved!

🎟️ Tickets are on sale, and sponsorship opportunities are still available.
Join us at the Movement Mixer and help fuel the advocacy, organizing, and policy work advancing justice for DC residents.

🔗 Register or become a sponsor: https://dcjusticelab.org/movement-mixer/

⚠️ Content warning: This post contains explicit language and descriptions of experiences with police and incarceration.

📚✍🏾 Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop builds community to foster personal development and systems change for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth and adults through the literary arts, workforce development, trauma healing, peace-building, and member-led advocacy.

Their poets show how creativity and passion can change hearts and minds—and law and policy, too.

Ambassadors show up in their communities and in elected officials' offices to demand change. 🩷

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