Who We Are

The Dreaming Justice Project (DJP) is a Black, Latinx, and Trans/Gender Expansive and Queer-led collective of thinkers, builders, and truth-tellers who believe liberation is both a material and intellectual pursuit. We are where faith, resistance, and imagination converge to confront the systems that distort truth, destroy communities, and decide who gets to be seen as human.

Our work moves at the intersections of decarceration, reentry, harm reduction, and racial, economic, and transformative justice. Among other buckets of programming at DJP, we provide direct support to people navigating reentry after incarceration, HIV/STD awareness and prevention, identification document assistance, and working to protect trans lives and futures. We also provide some assistance to immigrants, particularly those navigating that precarious intersection between being undocumented and LGBTQIA2S+.

We don’t exist to reform what’s broken but to remake what’s possible. Our work moves through policy, art, journalism, and belief and thought to design freer worlds — not as abstract ideals but as living architectures of justice. We enter hostile terrains of thought and power with discipline and defiance because we understand that this is a war of ideas as much as a struggle for bodies, land, and futures.

We are abolitionists, yes, but also educators, healers, and cultural architects. We are builders of memory, protectors of story, and stewards of a freedom that refuses permission. Dreaming Justice is not just what we do — it’s who we are becoming together.

Who We Serve

We serve the dreamers, the dispossessed, the returning, and the rebuilding, people too often written out of the story yet still daring to imagine one. Our work centers Black, Latinx, LGBTQIA2s+, and justice-impacted communities whose survival has always been an act of genius.

We walk with those navigating reentry, housing insecurity, HIV stigma, and systemic neglect, and with those who still believe that liberation must include jobs, safety, dignity, and truth. We serve the organizers, artists, workers, and everyday visionaries who refuse to settle for inclusion in broken systems and instead labor to create new ones.

Ours is a movement for the people who carry whole worlds inside them but are told their light is too much. We exist to remind them that their light IS the light of the world.