Decarcerate Alameda County is a growing coalition of organizations and community members joining together to demand that Alameda County free people from Santa Rita Jail, divest from incarceration & policing, and invest in community health.

​Visit our Platform page to learn more about our political framework and focus.
Visit our Calendar page for regular meeting info and actions.

​To get in touch, please find instructions on the Contact tab of this website.

Participating Organizations

We are broad coalition of grassroots community and social justice organizations that have united to get people free from Santa Rita Jail and reinvest taxpayer dollars into life-affirming resources.  Below are the organizations involved:

Steering Committee:

• 67 Sueños
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
• Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP)
• Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)
• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Hayward Community Coalition (HayCoCo)
• Human Impact Partners (HIP)
• Justice Reinvestment Coalition of Alameda County
• Moms 4 Housing
• Restore Oakland (RO)

Member Organizations:

• Alameda County Families Advocating for the Seriously Mentally Ill
• ACLU of Northern California
• California Sanctuary Campaign
• Causa Justa / Just Cause
• ​Congregation Beth El, Berkeley
• ​Crisis Support Services of Alameda County
  
• Critical Resistance, Oakland
• ​East Bay Community Law Center
• East Bay Supportive Housing Collaborative
• First Unitarian Church of Oakland
• Healers for Abolition
• Indivisible East Bay
• Justice for Steven Taylor
• Justice Teams Network
• Psychologists for Social Responsibility
• Public Health Justice Collective
• Siegel, Yee, Brunner & Mehta
• Southern Alameda County Resistance Network
• Sunrise Movement Bay Area
• SURJ Bay Area
• Urban Peace Movement
• Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
• Young Womens Freedom Center

If you are representing an organization who would like to join the Coalition, please fill out this form.

Staff

Cynthia Nunes, Organizer
Cynthia was born in Hayward as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and a Bay Area native. Cynthia brings to her advocacy work her lived experience of having tragically lost her cousin at the hands of Hayward Police in 2018. As Decarcerate Alameda County’s (DAC) full-time Organizer, she oversees the organization’s plans to reduce the incarcerated population in Santa Rita Jail and Alameda County Sheriff’s budget. 

Prior to joining DAC, Cynthia was a founding member of the Hayward Community Coalition (HayCocoa), where she currently serves as the Chair of HayCoCoa’s Committee to Defund the Hayward Police Department. Cynthia is committed to healing and restorative justice with a focus on  building community. She hopes to use her passion for justice and her own lived experiences to build a strong community across Alameda County that will work together for true safety and healing.

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