Yoana Tchoukleva (formerly “Ioana”) is a civil rights attorney and restorative justice circle keeper devoted to building practices, policies and spaces that further collective healing and liberation. She is also the Institute Co-Chair of New Leaders Council Oakland, the Interim Board Chair of the Embodiment Project, and a facilitator with the Oakland-based Social Justice Collective. Most recently, she served as the Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow at Equal Justice Society where she used both litigation and legislative advocacy to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and reduce the impact of individual and systemic bias on communities of color interfacing with the education and criminal legal systems. Previously, Yoana was engaged in community restorative justice and policy work, clerked for Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the Northern District of California, and served as a Litigation Fellow at the ACLU of Northern California where she advocated for an end to juvenile life without parole in California. She is a graduate of Berkeley Law and a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. In this episode, we discuss the issues with, and alternatives to, a carceral state. More resources here.