Amika is a nationally respected movement strategist and formerly incarcerated leader with more than two decades of experience translating lived experience into statewide policy, coalition strategy, and systems change. Her commitment to reproductive justice, abolition, and grassroots power-building is rooted in direct experience; during her incarceration, she advocated for women inside as a jailhouse lawyer, paralegal, firefighter, and mentor.
Amika began organizing as a teen mother and midwife and has since built a strong record of community organizing, leadership development, and policy advocacy led by systems-impacted women. She has held senior policy and movement leadership roles across California, including serving as Policy Director at Young Women’s Freedom Center and Executive Director of Sister Warriors, where she helped build a statewide coalition advancing legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and political education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and gender-expansive people.
As Senior Vice President of Strategy & Policy, Amika leads the advancement of the Sister Warriors Freedom Charter through statewide policy strategy, coalition leadership, and high-level partnerships, working with organizational leaders, policymakers, and funders to embed freedom, equity, and economic power into law, practice, and political systems.
