Justice Rivera (she/they, ella/elle) has been working at the intersection of social justice and public health since 2010 when they became a peer outreach worker and community organizer with Prax(us). There, she formed her anti-oppression and harm reduction orientations working with street-based youth in their teens and twenties vulnerable to/ or experiencing exploitation. Justice joined the Sex Worker Outreach Project’s Denver chapter and advanced to Co-Director. In 2014, they transitioned to working at Denver’s largest syringe access program, the Harm Reduction Action Center, and received their BA in Self Determination and Social Change from the Metropolitan University of Denver. Then, she moved to Washington DC to become NASTAD’s inaugural Drug User Health staff where she helped advance federal drug policy reform and HIV/HCV appropriations. Justice also fell in love with training nonprofits and service providers. They began consulting on decarceration initiatives in 2016, then co-founded Reframe Health and Justice in 2018 to continue supporting organizations reaching towards racial equity, compassionate care, and comprehensive systems. Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use, the anthology that Justice co-authored, highlights the work they love doing with Reframe Health and Justice from designing programs rooted in healing-centered harm reduction to providing education on sex worker-centered harm reduction.

In her role with RHJ, she likes to lead projects focusing on capacity building assistance, training, facilitation, community-based research, and program development. Justice loves multi-faceted projects where they can work with the community and help make a community-wide impact. She loves public speaking and communications ranging from messaging to resource development. Some of their consulting projects have included: analyzing anti-trafficking policies and programming, researching the syringe access funding landscape, supporting racial equity within reproductive care, serving as an expert witness in drug and trafficking trials, and facilitating Grief Mutual Aid groups with social service staff.