Simone Akila on Clubhouse

Bio

(She/her/hers)

Masters in Social Work student at Howard
🌞Vice President of HU School of Social Work
🦋 therapist in training
🌱 co-founder Juneteenth SB and Healing Justice SB
👶🏾 social justice minded momma

https://linktr.ee/simoneakila

“Simone Akila (she/her/her) is a Black woman who loves Black people. She is a co-founder of Juneteenth Santa Barbara as well as Healing Justice Santa Barbara. She has led successful campaigns to center de-escalation and affirmation of life in Santa Barbara police use of force policies, secure monies for mental health positions instead of additional funding for law enforcement, establish city and county institutional support for Black cultural events, and to designate sites of Black Santa Barbara history as historical landmarks to protect them from gentrification. She currently is one of the driving forces behind the forming police oversight commission in Santa Barbara, an organizing effort spanning over 4 years.”