Excited to learn more about Sheri Shuster’s and Holly Joshi’s dynamic new venture, ALL IN FOR JUSTICE, including Still I Rise (2020) film screenings and panels, strategic partnerships and initiatives, donations, media requests and other inquiries? We sincerely welcome you to reach out! Our vision centers healing, public love and narrative change. We look forward to connecting with you! stillirisethefilm@gmail.com
At it’s core ALL IN FOR JUSTICE is an anti-trafficking, anti-racist, healing centered organization that seeks to change the narrative regarding sex trafficking and uplift the strengths, needs, and preferences of Black womxn and Black girls with lived experience.
Holly Joshi and Sheri Shuster Co-Founded ALL IN FOR JUSTICE because we believe that work dismantling systemic racism is anti-trafficking work. This includes efforts to support and center Black girls’ and womxns’ stories using participatory action research and artivism, training stakeholders including the media on ethical and multidimensional representation, and uplifting Black womxn’s, girls’, and femmes’ lived experiences through narrative change work.
ALL IN FOR JUSTICE Co-Founders and Co-Executive Directors:
Holly Joshi has been a committed community servant for two decades and a leader in the anti-trafficking and gender-based violence movement for over a decade. She currently works as a senior research consultant with Bright Research Group and with communities across the country developing anti-trafficking prevention and intervention strategies as a national training consultant. She served as the Executive Director at MISSSEY (Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth), a youth serving non-profit dedicated to providing direct services and advocacy for survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. In addition, she spent 14 years working in the Oakland Police Department where she served as a child abuse and human trafficking investigator, undercover vice officer, and as the supervisor of the Child Exploitation and Trafficking Unit. In this capacity, she investigated hundreds of cases involving child abuse, intimate partner violence, and commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking, interviewed hundreds of survivors and perpetrators, and posed in an undercover capacity extensively during trafficking investigations. Holly is a court-qualified expert in commercial sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, pimping, and pandering.
Holly was an invited member of Vice President (then California Attorney) General Kamala Harris’ Task Force on Human Trafficking and Task Force on 21st Century Policing and served on the City of Oakland’s CSEC Task Force and Alameda County’s Trafficking Task Force. She has been an invited speaker at the University of California-Berkeley, Stanford University, and Golden Gate School of Law. Holly is an alumnus of California State University East Bay and St. Mary’s College of California. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at St. Mary’s. Her work and advocacy have been featured in local and national media including Essence Magazine, MSNBC, and Anderson Cooper.
Sheri Shuster is an Iranian-American filmmaker interested in advancing intersectional and moral conversations about racism and power. An L.A. native, her commitment to human rights drew her into the world of public policy and storytelling. For over fifteen years she worked with nonprofits and elected officials, including former U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, and The Center for Women and Democracy. From 2008-2012 Sheri served as Associate Director of Covenant House California (CHC) advocating for homeless and sex trafficked youth. The extraordinary youth at CHC in Oakland inspired her directorial debut, Still I Rise (2020). Sheri’s work has been featured at The African American Policy Forum with Professor Kimberle Crenshaw and The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Still I Rise (2020) has been supported by the Berkeley Film Foundation, Jamel Perkins, the Harnisch Foundation, and PwC. Sheri is an alumnus of UCLA and the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. She and doc film star, Holly Joshi recently Co-founded All In for Justice.
