3 Jan 2019

Youth Justice in 2019

From Summer Times, 9:32 am on 3 January 2019
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Photo: JustSpeak

Tania Sawicki Mead is the director of youth-led justice movement JustSpeak. Formed in 2011 as the youth Branch of Rethinking Crime and Punishment and part of the Robson Hanan Trust, Justpeak became became the main focus of the trust in 2015.

Their campaigns have been focused on prison reform, raising the age threshold for youth justice and drastically reforming the way incarceration works in NZ.  They've also been vocal around racial and gender inequalities in our justice system as well as collaborating with artists and musicians to create work questioning what justice means in Aotearoa.