TeAna Taylor

TeAna Taylor is the co-director of policy and communications and an organizer with Release Aging People in Prison.

Their work as an advocate for the children of incarcerated parents is informed by their father’s incarceration of nearly two decades, as well as her earlier organizing with We Got Us Now and the HALT Solitary Campaign. They have been engaging their community in restorative justice work for the past eight years, creating and maintaining a peer mediation program at a local middle school; facilitating restorative justice circles within classrooms and among community members; and providing conflict coaching and training in peer mediation to students.

TeAna has also facilitated circles to address issues faced by students and faculty of color at their alma mater, SUNY Schenectady, that led to policy change for a more inclusive and diverse campus.