The New EJUSA Website!

I’m so proud to kick off 2020 with two big announcements.

First, EJUSA is turning 30 years old this year! And we’re celebrating this milestone with this new website!

The site is a declaration of our bold vision for justice reimagined. With your support, we’re transforming what justice is. We’re rejecting mass incarceration, executions, police violence, and racial injustice. Instead, we’re building the new systems we want — systems that deliver safety, healing, and accountability that restores to everyone affected by harm.
That vision is the foundation of our new website.

Take a special look at our What is Justice? page to learn how — together — we will get there.

If you like what you see, please share the page on social media or email a link to three friends.

Then take a longer look around. Explore our programs, issues, and our team and board.

Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on history and chart new paths for the future. We can’t rest on past victories when there are 2.2 million people behind bars, more than 2,500 people on death row, and millions of incidents of community violence, sexual violence, racial violence, and violence by the justice system every year.

Stay tuned over the coming months as I share history, stories, and strategies from the past three decades.

As a member of the EJUSA family, this anniversary is yours too. Congratulations!

By Shari Silberstein

Since 2000, Shari Silberstein has dedicated her career to transforming the justice system from one that harms to one that heals. Under her leadership, and using campaign strategies she helped develop, Equal Justice USA has helped end the death penalty in nine states, built first-of-its-kind conservative and evangelical coalitions for justice reform, secured millions in state funding for healing services to families of murder victims, launched an innovative model for training and dialogue between police and communities on trauma and race equity, and strengthened dozens of local organizations across the nation working for justice, violence reduction, and healing. Shari has been a national voice in helping to break down the silos between criminal justice reformers and crime survivor advocates. Her expertise has been a source in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine, and she has written op-eds for an array of media outlets, including Fox News, the Marshall Project, and U.S. News and World Report. Shari has a bachelor's degree in film from New York University and a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Texas at Austin.