She is a longtime advocate and activist in the anti-violence movement, a founding member of INCITE! and the founder of Creative Interventions, an organization established to create accessible models of community-based interventions to domestic and sexual violence alternative to criminalization. She is currently working on a California statewide initiative to build grassroots, community-based capacity to implement violence intervention options aligned with the principles of Transformative Justice. She is also co-editor of Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order.