CBPS Collective
Aqeela Sherrills is the Executive Director at Community Based Public Safety Collective. Aqeela is also a national speaker, trainer, and strategist on issues related to violence prevention, public safety, and social justice.
Sherrills has over two decades of experience as an organizer and advocate. Aqeela is a founding member of the Men's Social Justice Leadership Network, a national organization of Black male social justice leaders, and served as its first Executive Director. Aqeela also served as the National Training Director for the Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice Initiative at the Alliance for Safety and Justice, where they developed campaign and strategy for what became the Number 1 crime survivors’ network in the US.
Sherrills is a leading voice in the movement to end mass incarceration and build safer communities. Aqeela has testified before the United States Congress, and their work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN, and other national media outlets.
Aqeela Sherrills attended West Los Angeles College and California State University, Northridge.
Doreen Minor - Executive Assistant, E Ruebman - Managing Director report to Aqeela Sherrills.
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CBPS Collective
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We are a collective of experts in building neighborhood leadership to advance safety -- the groups on the ground that do the work day in and day out to mediate conflict, get people in crisis into supportive services and put youth on a path away from violence and to stability. We represent and support the dozens of small, nonprofit, community-led grassroots organizations that, for decades, have been helping to forge peace, with little support or official recognition from policymakers, elected officials or funding agencies. Investing in the community-based public safety leaders is the key difference-maker in stopping violence, ending mass incarceration and setting the nation on a transformational course toward a shared safety model rooted in systems of care, healing and community self-determination.