Tamisha Torres-Walker serves on the city council of Antioch, CA (District 1) and is a co-founder and the current Executive Director of the Safe Return Project in Contra Costa County, an organization invested in securing the freedom and liberation of formerly incarcerated and convicted individuals using participatory action research and grassroots organizing to end mass incarceration and mass criminalization of poor people. She has been a community organizer and known advocate on issues related to mass incarceration and racial disparity in the criminal justice system since her own release from incarceration in 2009.