The Wound is Where the Gifts Lie | Just Healing Podcast

Kyra Dunson
Oct 12, 2022
1 min read

Updated: Mar 30, 2023

In the premiere episode of Just Healing, Richard Smith talks with activist and childhood sexual abuse survivor, Aqeela Sherrills.

Aqeela Sherrills is the Founder and leader of the Community-Based Public Safety Collective, which advises and trains local public safety organizations in the methodologies that he has found most effective in helping communities reduce and prevent violence, as well as helping victims heal. This work builds on his work with The Newark Community Street Team (NCST)..

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