Leaders of Healing Justice Santa Barbara Collective Speak Out

For Meagan Hockaday

For George Floyd

For Ahmaud Arbery

For Breonna Taylor

For Nina Pop

For Priscilla Slater

For Rayshard Brooks

For the countless others whose names have escaped our lips but whose loss has been deeply felt 

We do this work for the love of Black people.

I, Simone Ruskamp and my organizing sister, Krystle Farmer Sieghart, are two of the parts of the larger Healing Justice Santa Barbara Collective. 

As Black femme women, we have stepped into…