Emily Ramirez is a Policy Fellow supporting the Peace & Healing Centers program.
Emily is a visual artist, poet, Los Angeles native, and first-generation college graduate. As someone who experienced homelessness and financial instability herself, Emily is guided by the principle that living wages, accessible healthcare, quality education, and affordable housing are not only possible, but necessary for the collective wellbeing of all people and for the attainment of justice for historically marginalized Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color. At Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, Emily is learning to leverage economics, legislative analyses, political processes, unions, and urban planning as tools toward justice. Emily received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from California State University Los Angeles and wrote her senior honors thesis on the impacts of mass incarceration in South Central, LA.