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We envision a society where healingnot punishmentis upheld as justice. Examining school disciplinary data we find that Black girls are the only group of girls to be disproportionately overrepresented in every type of school disciplinary action. At our core NBWJI is committed to Dismantling pathways to criminalization and confinement for Black women and girls. Policing Black Women and TGNC People An Intersectional Study of Black Women Trans and Gender Nonconforming Peoples Encounters with Police Increasing and enhancing opportunities with and for formerly incarcerated women and girls.