Sia Henry is deeply committed to liberation and racial justice and has spent over a decade in the criminal legal system reform and abolition spaces. She comes to MAPS with the goal of ensuring Black, indigenous, and other communities of color have meaningful access to transformative healing opportunities. Sia previously worked with the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice, supporting community-based organizations and criminal legal system partners around the country in establishing pre-charge restorative justice diversion programs that, without relying on prosecution or incarceration, bring those who have caused and been impacted by harm into healing and accountability processes. She also spent a number of years on conditions of confinement work, engaging in impact litigation and training to improve conditions for incarcerated people with physical and developmental disabilities and mental health issues, and those most at risk of sexualized violence.
Sia is also the founder and Executive Director of the Hood Exchange, which introduces formerly incarcerated Black communities to international travel throughout the African diaspora. Sia graduated from Harvard Law School and Duke University.